Parrot is a new language-independent virtual machine intended to run Perl 6, Perl 5, Python, Ruby, and z-machine code. It is a register-based, bytecode-driven, asynchronous, event-capable, threaded VM with a built-in just-in-time compiler. This tutorial will provide an overview of Parrot and some technologies in the Parrot engine.
Who Should Attend?
Perl and Python users interested in finding out what is coming down the pike and system developers interested in learning about some breakthrough technologies for language runtime systems.
Click here to download Parrot 0.1.0 for Microsoft Windows.
- Overview of Parrot
- Overview of Perl 6 and comparison to Perl 5
- Perl versus Python versus Ruby: what are the tradeoffs ?
- Tricks of building a Virtual Machine
- Tutorial on some of the technologies of the Parrot engine
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| Title: | Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials. 2nd Edition |
| Author(s): | Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, and Leopold Totsch |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly & Associates |
| List price: | $29.95 |
| PDS price: | $20.00 |
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