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================================================ Book News ================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059600737X "Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, 2nd Edition" provides an insider's look at what's coming in the widely anticipated Perl 6. It uncovers groundbreaking new developments in Parrot, and the most revolutionary change in the language itself, Apocalypse 12 on objects. The book also expands coverage of Apocalypse 5 (regular expressions) and Apocalypse 6 (subroutines). This is the only book to reveal all the ingenious developments that will make Perl 6 more powerful and easier to use. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/059600737X/index.html
Chapter 10, "Parrot Intermediate Representation," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/059600737X/chapter/index.html