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Re:Brief History of JIT in MoarVM for Perl 6 by acqq on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:19AM (#17507586)
So is “nomen” now “omen?” Is the Parrot dead? (1) (2)

I can’t figure that out. On

http://parrot.org

It seems it maybe still moves?

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch

2) The name's origin is really the sketch see: https://web.archive.org/web/20040203055250/http://www.oreill... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine#cite_re... "The name Parrot came from an April Fool's joke which announced a hypothetical language, named Parrot, that would unify Python and Perl.[4][5]"

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Re:Brief History of JIT in MoarVM for Perl 6 by b2gills on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @12:00PM (#17507931)
It used to have monthly releases.

The last release was from more than two years ago.

If it isn't dead yet, it certainly is feeling its age.

If someone were willing, they are more than welcome to start a fresh Parrot port of Rakudo.

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