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Re: Parrot 0.6.3 "Beautiful Parrot" Released!

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From:
Alberto Simões
Date:
June 17, 2008 10:08
Subject:
Re: Parrot 0.6.3 "Beautiful Parrot" Released!
Message ID:
4857EF74.6050900@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt
Congratulations.

And nice timing. Right before Mozilla gets firefox.com working.

Cheers
Alberto

Nuno 'smash' Carvalho wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.3
> "Beautiful Parrot." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
> at running all dynamic languages.
> 
> Parrot 0.6.3 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
> instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html.  For those who
> would like to develop on
> Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on
> the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.
> 
> Parrot 0.6.3 News:
> - Specification
>   + updated pdd09_gc.pod
> - Languages
>   + Cardinal:
>     - dramatically improved parsing speed
>     - added support for defining and instantiating classes
>     - started fleshing out the builtin class hierarchy
>     - added support for hashes and arrays
>   + Chitchat: added the start of a smalltalk compiler
>   + Pheme: updated to match PGE changes
>   + Pynie: return statement, other minor updates
>   + Rakudo:
>     - added working list and hash contexts
>     - added 'return' statements
>     - added => pair constructor
>     - added ?? !! ternary
>     - added Range, range operators, Complex
>     - added common List, Hash methods
>     - refactored base classes
>     - added Mutable, Perl6Scalar classes
>     - added type-checking, is readonly/rw/copy for parameters
>     - added make localtest, docs/spectest-progress.csv
>     - fix named unaries
>   + Squaak: implement return statement
>   + Tcl: updated control flow exceptions to use new builtin types
> - Compilers
>   + All tools converted to P6object metamodel
>   + PGE:
>     - <?foo> is now a zero-width match
>     - reduced backtracking to improve parsing speed
>   + PCT:
>     - added "return" PAST.op node type for subroutine returns
>     - added "keyed_int" scoping to PAST::Var
>     - fixed calls to closures
>     - automatically transcode 7-bit unicode to ascii for faster processing
>   + NQP: added "return" statement, ?? !! ternary operator
> - Configuration
>   + expanded step gen::opengl
> - Implementation
>   + updated function and macro names to match pdd09_gc.pod
>   + removed Super PMC
>   + add ".namespace []" as alternative to ".namespace"
>   + "make codetest" target runs standard coding tests
> - Miscellaneous
>   + added P6object class for Perl 6 interfaces to objects in Parrot
>   + ported OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings to Win32, BSD, and more Mac OS X variants
>   + generate OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings by parsing system headers
>   + new OpenGL example shapes.pir, covering basic OpenGL 1.1 / GLUT 3 APIs
>   + new float4.pir structure-packing benchmark
>   + reduced memory use for variables
>   + improved constant string caching
>   + made code g++ and gcc (with optimizations) safe
>   + the usual collection of bugfixes and optimizations
> 
> 
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 15 July 2008.
> 
> Enjoy!
> ./smash

-- 
Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal

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