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Parrot is a virtual machine. Other virtual machines.

Parrot is a virtual machine for dynamic programming languages.

Languages specific to Parrot

  • PASM, Parrot ASeMbly, is a low-level language that resembles Parrot bytecode.
  • PIR, Parrot Intermediate Representation, extends PASM with syntactic sugar.
  • NQP, Not Quite Perl, is a simple language that looks like Perl, but excludes many features of Perl, so it is Not Quite Perl.

Languages for Parrot