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5th November, 4:04 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sat, 5 Nov 2005 04:04:00 +0000

from the parrot mailing list regarding the stripping of .t file attachments: "This was changed on perl5-porters a few weeks ago, and since then I don't recall seeming a marked increase in troff spam". genius

6th April, 4:50 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:50:00 +0000

excellent news - nick clark has started work on ponie again, and there's a detailed roadmap

29th March, 7:05 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:05:00 +0000

an excellent slide from autrijus' perl 6 talk at yapc::taipei. i'm going to keep that one in mind for future presentations.

7th February, 7:47 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:47:00 +0000

autrijus is implementing a featherweight perl6 in haskell. it's on cpan. i'm overly excited.

15th November, 7:23 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:23:00 +0000

sam ruby wonders about the implementation of classes in parrot - specifically how to provide a system which can provide both perl and python class semanics, which are wildly different.

3rd November, 6:19 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:19:00 +0000

matt diephouse and joshua gatcomb have put together an automated benchmark suite for parrot, which is nice to track alongside trunk development.

18th October, 4:06 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 04:06:00 +0000

pdd7 contains parrot's coding standards. this document alone seems to be larger than most oss projects. a very detailed basis to start coding on. (though i wonder how closely the actual source follows the conventions).

18th October, 1:52 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:52:00 +0000

cardinal is a parrot runtime for ruby. it's going to be a close call as to which dyn-language (ruby, python, php) makes it to a parrot-based beta first.

17th October, 10:12 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:12:00 +0000

unununium looks like a nice os project. one of the authors is working on adding parrot support. a parrot os would be cool.

14th October, 4:27 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:27:00 +0000

Inline::Parrot is now in CPAN. i suspect i'll be installing that later today.