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Parrot 2.2??Parrot 2.2??Posted Mar 17, 2010 19:39 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Parrot 2.2?? by b7j0c Parent article: Parrot 2.2.0 released
I'm not trolling, just offering an answer OP's question. I think it's unarguable that a team that has published two books without even having a working language has lost sight of the big picture.
Also, given the output of the project so far, I think one could be forgiven for thinking that the Perl6 team's top priorities until now has been producing progress reports and selling books.
Funny you should mention 2007, it doesn't seem like much has changed. :) http://lwn.net/Articles/263386/
Anyhow, my best wishes to the entire team for April. I hope they manage to produce software that people actually want to use. We'll see!
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Parrot 2.2?? Posted Mar 17, 2010 22:02 UTC (Wed) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link]
The output of the project so far includes (as of tomorrow) 27 releases of Rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot). There may be plenty to criticize, but "not releasing software" is not one of them. A better line of criticism is "Why is it necessary to reinvent regular expressions and spend a couple of years researching how to produce lexically scoped mutable grammars?" -- but once you understand why that's an interesting question, you'll probably have noticed the 27 releases of Rakudo.
I've had working software in Perl 6 for four and a half years.
Parrot 2.2?? Posted Mar 17, 2010 22:24 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
I don't understand the criticism of Perl 6 as not a "working language". It
has been included in Fedora 12
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Rakudo_Perl_6
They do very frequent releases on a regular schedule and it is already used
Parrot 2.2?? Posted Mar 18, 2010 9:53 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
And what can I do with it?
Specifically, in Debian I now see parrot already included in Squeeze, Rakudo is still in Experimental, but 0 other packages depend on parrot.
Parrot 2.2?? Posted Mar 18, 2010 10:09 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
You can write a Perl 6 program with it obviously :-) The formal release is
next month.
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