On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:36:57 +0200, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Parrot 0.2.1 "APW" Released! > > On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly > release of Parrot and I'd like to thank all involved people as well as > our sponsors for supporting us. > > The release name stands for "Austrian Perl Workshop", which will take > place on 9th and 10th of June in Vienna. It will have a french > connection that is a live video stream to the French Perl Workshop > happening at the same time. Thanks, applied. > What is Parrot? > > Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic > languages. > > Parrot 0.2.1 changes and news > > - better HLL support (short names for object attributes, and > .HLL and n_operators pragmas) > - string encoding and charset can now be set independently > - experimental mmap IO layer for slurping files > - distinct debug and trace flag settings > - glob support in PGE > - new character classification opcodes and interfaces > > After some pause you can grab it from > <http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.2.1.tar.gz>. > > As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you > just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at > <http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html> > > Turn your web browser towards <http://www.parrotcode.org/> for more > information about Parrot, get involved, and: > > Have fun! > leo > > -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
