"Perlito" MiniPerl6 4.0 - string-eval, more bootstrapped backends

"Flavio S. Glock" <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:40:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce
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Perlito is a subset of Perl 6, which was designed as a light
bootstrapping language.

Changelog for version 4.0:

4.0  2010-03-20
- Go backend bootstrap.
  The Go backend was updated to the latest Go language spec.
- Perl5 backend optimized; 30% faster
- More library functions, added to all backends
- New 'Eval.pm' module - implements a MiniPerl6 interpreter in MiniPerl6.
  This should add some debugging capabilities later on.
- New test suite. See README on how to use 'prove' for each backend.
- New compiler options to create binary executables
- Currently the stable backends are: Perl5, Javascript, JVM, Lisp, Go.
  See README for bootstrapping instructions for all backends.
- Removed support for features that are not standard Perl6.

Thanks to pmurias++ for helping test this release.

Version 4.0 can be downloaded from
http://github.com/fglock/Perlito/tree/7f0ac392dfcf04d390ebefe5f4274bb37cbd7=
b6e

Enjoy!
- Fl=E1vio S. Glock (fglock)