For anyone who's unfamiliar with Parrot, it's the virtual machine that will be used for Perl 6. (See http://parrotcode.org).

After spending a number of years on the internals list for Perl 6, I've finally managed to get my hands dirty. I was put off for a long time by the steep learning curve I faced and the time constraints of a busy schedule. And while I'm still finite, I have started to work on the learning curve. And I've decided to document it.

So for anyone who is interested, I have set up a blog tracking my progress and explaining things as I learn them. I hope this will make learning easier for others in the future and encourage more community participation in Parrot. I will be working on this, and Parrot, as time allows (a variable).

I don't assume much knowledge, so nearly anyone should be able to read and understand. In fact, one of my first posts is about using binary files, a topic which has eluded me up till now as a perl programmer but is assumed knowledge for Parrot.

Of course, there are probably errors and inadequate explanations lurking about, so feedback is both welcome and appreciated.

elusion : http://matt.diephouse.com

Update: There are several feeds available as well: RSS RSD atom

In reply to Learning to Parrot by elusion

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.