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Been a while since I last caught up with Parrot , quite a number of languages starting to target it now. Perl - of course :) Amber - a Ruby like language Lua - and some details on a paper . Basic - readme Python (not sure why Python is not center stage...
Sterling has some news on Johns blog on the status of the Pint project (PHP running on Parrot). Now Jim has joined the CLR team maybe it's time that minds be brought together to re-start the thinking about running Perl and indeed PHP on the CLR.
Internet access is back....way!! T-minus 13 days..... John has a link to a article written by David Ascher, CTO of ActiveState . In the article he discuss's the challenges facing dynamic languages and ponders their future. Its a very interesting article...
Rob blogs about his day-before-the-first-day at OSCON . Great to see OSCON getting underway, really looking foward to seeing some of the stuff come out of the show. A few sessions I wish I could see. Chasing the dragon, running PHP on Parrot . The project...
OSCON gets close and Dan admits that he may have lost the bet that started Parrot . Losing the bet however is not quite the case, all sorts of things have led to Dan and the Parrot team not reaching the key goals in time for OSCON. However as Dan states...
Dan has some notes on requests for someone to help lead the Perl 6 development. That is development of the language and it running on Parrot. Dan is writing Parrot as the runtime, Larry is designing Perl 6, but someone needs to help Larry's designs happen...
While browsing the INETA news letter I came across this comment from Scott Hanselman . J: What do you feel are the most compelling things about NET? S: Not to mean to sound like a sycophant, but really, what's NOT compelling? I believe in 5 to 10 years...
Short and sweet before the week starts One of .NETs big guns Randy Holloway has taken the red pill , Randys post on his reasons for joining (the point about not having to relocate is yet another example of Microsofts view, its about being able to do your...
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