Parrot Tutorial

By Allison Randal from PDX.pm
Date: Saturday February 16, 2008 10:00
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Tags: parrot

Parrot is a virtual machine like no other. Targeting dynamic languages such as Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP, it incorporates an object-oriented assembly language, is register-based rather than stack-based, and employs continuations as the core means of flow control. It hosts a powerful suite of compiler tools tailored to dynamic languages and a next generation regular expression engine. This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.