NAME ^

jako - No frills programming for Parrot

SYNOPSIS ^

Jako is a simple programming language that targets the Parrot virtual machine.

DESCRIPTION ^

Jako should be familiar to those who have seen C and Perl.

Lexical Structure ^

Jako's lexical structure is similar to its relative: Perl. Whitespace between tokens is not significant, and comments are introduced with an octothorp ('#') and continue to the end of the line.

Syntax ^

Semantics ^

HISTORY ^

Jako was the first language to target the Parrot virtual machine. It was also the first language to support subroutines (although in a rudimentary, hackish way) for Parrot. It has since grown up a bit and now uses PIR to get real subroutine support.

AUTHOR ^

You can blame gregor <gregor@focusresearch.com> for the Jako language and its compiler.

COPYRIGHT ^

Copyright (C) 2001-2007, The Perl Foundation.

LICENSE ^

The Jako compiler is free software. It is subject to the same license as the Parrot interpreter.


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