Parrot 0.9.1 "Final Countdown" released!

[François Perrad]

2009/2/18 kjstol <parrotcode at gmail.com>:
> o/~ We're leaving together,
>       but still its farewell o/~
>
> o/~ And maybe we'll come back,
>       To earth, who can tell? o/~
>
> o/~ I guess there is no one to blame
>       We're leaving ground
>           Will things ever be the same again? o/~
>
> o/~ It's the Final Countdown...
>       The Final Countdown  o/~
>
> --Europe, "The Final Countdown"
>
>
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.9.1
> "Final Countdown." Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
> at running all dynamic languages.
>

As usual, the Windows setup is available on
http://parrotwin32.sourceforge.net/ .
And for the first time, many languages are supplied as add-ons.

François.

> Parrot 0.9.1 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
> instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html.  For those who
> would like to develop on
> Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on
> the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.
>
> Parrot 0.9.1 News:
> - Implementation
>  + Support for portable 'Inf', 'NaN' and -0.0
>  + pbc_disassemble prints constants in constants table
>  + New experimental BigNum implementation
>  + Pair is now a dynamic loadable PMC
>  + Various function name sanification
>  + New implementation of Strings component
>  + Replace various PMC value union access code by VTABLE method invocations
>  + Replace various PMC value unions by ATTRibutes
>  + Removed SArray PMC. Use FixedPMCArray instead.
> - Documentation
>  + Book
>    - updates to Chapter 2 (getting started)
>    - updates to Chapter 3 (PIR basics)
>    - updates to Chapter 4 (PIR subroutines)
>    - updates to Chapter 10 (HLLs)
>    - updates to Chapter 12 (opcodes)
>  + Function documentation
>  + Pod documentation style modernized; no longer Perl 5 style.
>  + PMC has an additional acronym: Poly Morphic Container
>  + The DOD (Dead Object Detection) acronym is no longer used;
>    use 'GC' to refer to the Garbage Collector component.
> - Compilers
>  + IMCC
>    - :named flag can now take string registers as argument
>    - A single '=cut' directive is now ignored (without initial Pod directive)
>    - :vtable subs now have proper access to 'self' pseudo variable
> - Languages
>  + add new 'Pod' documentation parser
>  + Pipp (PHP implementation):
>    - Pipp is now at http://github.com/bschmalhofer/pipp
>    - support for 'print', 'dirname', 'implode', 'str_replace',
>    - various grammar fixes
>  + ECMAScript
>    + add 'quit', 'readline' builtins
>    + fix 'Boolean' type and 'print' builtin
>  + Lua
>    - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/fperrad/lua/
>  + Rakudo
>    - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/
>    - build instructions can be found at http://tinyurl.com/rakudo
>  + lazy-k
>    - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/bschmalhofer/lazy-k.git
>  + unlambda
>    - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/bschmalhofer/unlambda/
>  + WMLScript
>    - left the nest and is now at http://github.com/fperrad/wmlscript.git
>  + removed Zcode implementation
> - Tools
>  + pmc2C
>    - ATTRs are now inherited automatically in subclassing PMCs
> - Deprecations
>  + Parrot_readbc, Parrot_loadbc renamed to Parrot_pbc_read, Parrot_pbc_load.
>  + .HLL_map directive in favour of 'hll_map' method on Parrot interpreter
>  + Data::Escape library
> - Tools
>  + pbc_disassemble options added
>  + pbc_dump renamed from pdump
> - Miscellaneous
>  + Parrot is now Copyright Parrot Foundation
>  + Parrot's SVN repository is now hosted at https://svn.parrot.org
>  + Various code cleanups, consting, 64-bit incompatibilities and
> other bug fixes
>
>
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 17 March 2009.
>
> Enjoy!
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