Parrot 0.3.0 "Alex" Released!

October 1, 2005

On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of Parrot 0.3.0 and I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us.

What is Parrot?

Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl 6 and other dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.3.0 changes and news

New calling conventions implemented: see PDD03 for details
Merge multiple Parrot bytecode (PBC) files into a singe PBC file
'make smoke' target going beta
bc now supports if statements, comparison ops, prefix inc/dec
ParTcl adds [lassign], [switch] (partially); [expr] converted to a compiler
Many exciting doc updates, tests, and bugfixes, too numerous to mention

After some pause you can grab it from ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.3.0.tar.gz.

As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html.

Turn your web browser towards http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo