Here's some perl 6, parrot, and rakudo news for you: As I mentioned earlier this month, Parrot 1.0 is apparently due out March 17: <http://www.parrot.org/news/vision-for-1_0>. The February release of Parrot alluded to this milestone with its "Final Countdown" name: <http://www.parrot.org/news/2009/Parrot-0.9.1>. The stabilization of parrot is great news for perl 6 fans. (wake up, people!)
Parrot 1.0 is expected to be the first stable release of the virtual machine that you can use to build languages on top of. Of course, one language being built on Parrot is Rakudo, an implementation of perl 6. Rakudo development recently became a little more separated from Parrot development, now having its own source repository. So, this month's Rakudo release is the first one that's separated from a Parrot release <http://perlbuzz.com/2009/02/perl-6-stretches-its-wings-makes-a-milestone-release.html>. Each month's release of Rakudo is getting tons better than the previous month. You can write pretty complex programs in perl 6 using Rakudo these days. With Parrot stabilized, I'm betting that Rakudo development will continue to get closer to having a usable, stable language soon. Maybe even by Christmas. They could use your help, though, so if you feel like playing with perl 6, perhaps you can lend the Rakudo development team a hand. If any of you guys have played with perl 6, I'd be interested in hearing about it. -Andy _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
