On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.6, the most recent close-to-monthly release of Parrot. I'm particularly pleased to report that Parrot 0.4.6 includes the beginnings of a Ruby implementation (named "Cardinal"), thanks to the work of Kevin Tew.
What is Parrot? Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. The Parrot project home page is <http://www.parrotcode.org/>. You may now grab Parrot 0.4.6 from: <http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/CHIPS/parrot-0.4.6.tar.gz> New in Parrot 0.4.6: - New languages: Ruby ("Cardinal"), Javascript ("ecmascript") - Updated languages: Tcl, dotnet, bc, Pheme, Punie, WMLScript - Updated compilers: PGE, TGE - IMCC updates: + ".loadlib" directive expresses dependencies + ".namespace" with no parameter goes to HLL root + lexer is reentrant (reentrant grammar in progress) - Namespace improvements: + new suite of opcodes to access namespaces and globals ("find_global" and "store_global" will be phased out) + namespace '' no longer means HLL root - Design document updates: namespaces (pdd23), basic types (pdd17), embedding - Updated tool requirements for developers: flex 2.5.33, bison 2.1, perl 5.6.1 - New to-do list for people new to Parrot: cage/todo.pod - The usual plethora of bugfixes and enhancements If you decide to develop on Parrot (or help develop Parrot itself), we strongly recommend that you keep up with the latest and best Parrot code by accessing our source code repository. Instructions for doing this are at <http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html>. I'd like to thank all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Share & Enjoy! Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
