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Most language implementations that target parrot are listed here. At least the implementations that live in the 'languages' directory of the parrot repository should be covered.
No author information is given here. This is because maintainers should be tracked in the respective languages/*/MAINTAINER files, and we don't want to repeat ourselves.
For current status of some languages see also http://smoke.parrotcode.org/smoke/. Languages that work with the unified languages test suite will have their test results listed under the smokes marked 'languages'.
List of languages
Amber for parrot
- Description
- Scripting language inspired by Eiffel and Ruby.
- Status
- Incomplete - but all examples and test cases are working. Estimated progress towards release 1.0: language constructs 47%, libraries 6%, documentation 4%, robustness 6%. See also http://xamber.org/history.html
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.2
- Location
- http://xamber.org/.
- The Amber PMCs are in
languages/amber.
APL
- Description
- APL
- Status
- Provides support for a variety of monadic/dyadic operators, character vectors, floats, int, and 1-D vectors. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
- "APL" in languages
BASIC/compiler
- Description
- BASIC Compiler
- Status
- Most of the samples work.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.3.0
- Location
languages/BASIC/compiler
BASIC/interpreter
- Description
- BASIC Interpreter written in pure Parrot.
- Status
- Has been broken for a long time.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.11
- Location
languages/BASIC/interpreter
bc
- Description
- Basic calculator. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_%28Unix%29 Implemented with the Parrot compiler tools PGE and TGE.
- Status
- Almost complete. A former implementation in languages/bc has been removed in revision 16528. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/abc
befunge
- Description
- Functioning -93 interpreter (input routines may be funky).
- Status
- Samples working, README explain how to build/use. (waiting for Parrot objects for a befunge-98 version).
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/befunge
bf
- Description
- bf. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck.
- Status
- Passes all tests. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/bf
c99
- Description
- PGE grammar for C99.
- Status
- Parser is pretty complete. Needs optok help.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.6
- Location
languages/c99
Cardinal
- Description
- Implementation of Ruby CVS Head 1.9
- Status
- Parser is pretty complete. Generates PIR for basic Ruby programs
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.9
- Location
languages/cardinal
Cardinal OLD DEAD
- Description
- Implementation of Ruby.
- Status
- Not active.
- Last verified with parrot version
- unknown
- Location
- http://rubyforge.org/projects/cardinal/
Cola
- Description
- Java like language with some hybrid Perl features like regex operators planned.
- See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_programming_language.
- Status
- Functioning, all samples working, lacks IO routines
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.11
- Location
languages/cola
Common Lisp
- Description
- Aspires to implement a significant subset of the Common Lisp language.
- Status
- Working for some simple forms. Due to some broken features, most of the bootstrapping code has been commented out.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/lisp
.Net To PIR Translator
- Description
- Translates .Net bytecode to PIR.
- Status
- Much is left to do, but it's complete enough to tranlate 75% of the .Net class library.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/dotnet
forth
- Description
- forth
- Status
- Unmaintained. Removed from trunk of Parrot subversion repository.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.13
- Location
- Up to revision 12805 of the Parrot subversion repository:
languages/forth
HQ9plus
- Description
- A joke language. See http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/hq9plus.html
- Status
- Works and is mostly complete.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/HQ9plus
Jako
- Description
- C/Perl like language, first compiler for Parrot. The intent is to have a block-structured language that is higher level than IMC, but still exposes the underlying virtual machine rather directly, in the hope that this will eventually be useful for coding extensions to the VM in a language more natural than IMC.
- See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jako_(programming).
- Status
- The compiler Works, and the language and examples include subroutines and global constants and variables. NCI also works. The Jako examples are tested during smoke testing. The 'queens' example currently has problems and is therefore not tested.
- Has a low-tech hand-coded lexer and parser, and the ability to spit out the parse tree as XML for debugging. Syntax is a bit rigid, but includes forms that will be familiar to Perl programmers.
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/jako
lazy-k
- Description
- lazy-k is a pure functional programming language according to the SKI calculus. See also http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/lazy-k.html
- Status
- Working, but not complete. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/lazy-k
Lua
- Description
- Lua 5.1 interpreter implemented with PGE/TGE/Partridge and friends.
- Lua 5.1 Standard Libraries (a large subset) implemented in PIR.
- Status
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- See details in languages/lua/doc/status.pod.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/lua
Monkey,
an implementation of Lua on Parrot
- Author
- Klaas-Jan Stol
- Description
- Making Lua work on Parrot. Implemented in C. The lexer is built with Flex. The Parser is built with Bison. TreeCC is used to generate the code for creating the Abstract Syntax Tree.
- There is also a Lua bytecode to PIR compiler at http://kjs.home.fmf.nl/lua2pir/
- Status
- Simple examples are working. The current version is 0.2.2.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.2.x
- Location
- http://kjs.home.fmf.nl/parrot/
- The Lua PMCs are in
languages/lua.
Parrot m4
- Description
- Port of GNU m4 to PIR.
- Status
- Functioning for handcrafted test cases. Loading frozen state is currently broken. Far from complete. Revision 0.0.14
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- Development is stalled. Takers are welcome.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/m4
miniperl
- Description
- miniperl
- Status
- Written by Jeff Goff. Unmaintained. Removed from trunk of Parrot subversion repository.
- Last verified with parrot version
- Unknown
- Location
- Up to revision 12805 of the Parrot subversion repository:
languages/miniperl
NQP
- Description
- Not Quite Perl : lite-Perl6 implemented with PCT
- Status
- In progress.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/nqp
Ook
- Description
- Functioning compiler targeting PASM.
- Status
- Samples working, README explain how to build/use. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.13
- Location
languages/ook
OpenComal
- Description
- Compiler emiting parrot being added to interpreter
- Status
- Under development; nowhere near anything yet
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.11
- Location
- http://www.josvisser.nl/opencomal
parrot_compiler
- Description
- An example on how the builtin PASM, PIR and PAST compilers can be used from within PASM and PIR programs.
- Status
- Working. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/parrot_compiler
Perl 5
- Description
- Primarily a repository for some perl5-specific functionality that was heavily used in early parrot development. This code is not slated for use with the Perl 6 implementation, and core parrot PMCs exist that provide much of the functionality here.
- This directory may be removed in a future release.
Perl 6 parser/compiler
- Description
- This is a Perl 6 parser/compiler, an early version (no version numbers yet). It's still very early, only simple expressions and functions are available. If you're in a hurry to write "real Perl 6" programs, you might try looking at Pugs -- http://www.pugscode.org. Or, you can send patches and contributions to the one being built here!
- Status
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with Parrot version
- 0.4.7 : Failed 5/27 test scripts. 5/189 subtests failed.
- Location
languages/perl6
Pheme
- Description
- It's not Scheme, it's Pheme! Pheme is a cleaned-up, partially implemented Lisp-2 compiler inspired by Scheme and built with TGE and PGE.
- Status
- Pheme handles function calls, a few built-in-PIR primitives, and atoms and lists. It also runs its tests written in pure Pheme. It is nearly to the point of being able to define the rest of the standard library in terms of its builtins.
- Last verified with Parrot version
- 0.4.3 : Failed 4/14 test scripts. 12/51 subtests failed.
- Location
languages/pheme
Pint
- Description
- An experimental implementation of PHP
- Status
- This project has been abandoned. Any takers?
- Last verified with parrot version
- Unknown
- Location
- http://www.akbkhome.com/svn.php/PintCompiler http://www.akbkhome.com/blog.php/View/44/Latest_in_Vapourware_PintCompiler__dbdo.html
PIR
- Description
- A PIR compiler using Parrot compiler tools.
- Status
- Fairly complete, about 95%. Note that this implementation is not exactly the same as the language as accepted by IMCC.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- location
- languages/PIR
PJS
- Description
- PJS is a JavaScript (ECMAScript) implementation. It makes use of flex/bison for parsing. It can only do basic things right now (variables, if-else, loops, try-catch-finally, eval, etc.).
- Status
- Started.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.12
- Location
- http://users.fulladsl.be/spb1622/pjs/
- Wiki
- http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?javascript
Plumhead
- Description
- The Plumheaded Parakeet aims to become an implementation of PHP on Parrot. The grand idea is to have side by side comparison of differen parsing and tree transformation strategies. Currently there are three variants: phc, PGE and ANTLR3.
- Status
- Started.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
- languages/plumhead
- Wiki
- http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?plumhead
Pugs
- Description
- Perl6 compiler written in Perl6 and Haskell with multiple backends
- Status
- Basic IO and control flow elements; mutable variables; assignment.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.4
- Location
- http://pugscode.org/
Punie
- Description
- Perl1 implemented in PIR with the help of TGE, Tree Grammar Engine, and PGE, Parrot Grammar Engine.
- Status
- So far, Punie handles constants (strings, integers, floats), variables, print statements, conditionals, do blocks, comma lists, and some basic math and logic ops.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/punie
Pynie
- Description
- A Python compiler for Parrot, based on PGE and TGE.
- Status
- Functions and simple expressions are working.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.9
- Location
languages/pynie
Python
- Description
- python
- Status
- Mostly working except for classes/exec/import. For licensing reasons, not in parrot's svn tree.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.11
- Location
- http://pirate.tangentcode.com/
regex
- Description
- regex
- Status
- Working but fairly minimal. Part of languages smoke testing. Almost all tests are succeeding.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/regex
Ruby
- Description
- Ruby
- Status
- Unmaintained. Removed from trunk of Parrot subversion repository.
- Last verified with parrot version
- Unknown
- Location
- Up to revision 12805 of the Parrot subversion repository:
languages/ruby
Span
- Description
- Span can be most concisely described as Smalltalk for C++, C#, and Java programmers. It features an object system modeled on the Smalltalk object system and a language syntax designed to be easy to learn for developers of C-like languages.
- Status
- Working.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.11
- Location
- http://homepage.mac.com/matt.kennedy/Span
Scheme
- Description
- Scheme
- Status
- Functioning, as far as implemented. Lists and functions are working but many functions are missing implementation. 70% pass ratio due to recent deprecations. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/scheme
Tcl ("partcl")
- Description
- A from scratch implementation of a Tcl 8.5 compiler in parrot.
- Status
- Passes nearly 25% of tcl's (lightly converted) test suite, using a Test::More like harness. (Doesn't run quite enough of tcl yet to simply use tcltest.tcl)
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/tcl
TAP (Test Anything Protocol)
- Description
- A parser for the Test Anything Protocol
- Status
- See Parrot RT for details. Search for [TAP]
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.6
- Location
languages/tap
unlambda
- Description
- unlambda is a pure functional programming language with mostly eager evaluation following the SKI calculus (+ a few extensions)
- See also http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/
- Status
- Working. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/unlambda
URM
- Description
- URM, Universal register machine.
- Status
- Functioning, all examples working. Language standard is stable and not expected to change soon.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/urm
WMLScript Translator
- Description
- Translates WMLScript bytecode to PIR.
- The language WMLScript is a subset of ECMAScript (ie JavaScript). WMLScript defines also an bytecode interpreter (stack based), a binary format.
- Status
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- See details in languages/WMLScript/doc/status.pod.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languages/WMLScript
YAL
- Description
- Yet Another Language
- Status
- It's mainly intended to test an AST interface and for checking that code generation plays nicely together with Parrot opcodes.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.0.13
- Location
- http://toetsch.at/yal/
Zcode
- Description
- Infocom's Z-machine. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine.
- Status
- 25 out of 66 Z3 opcodes all or mostly done. A long way from Zork. 3 out of 4 test files working.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
languges/Zcode
Defunct languages
Parakeet
Parakeet was a Forth that was extremely machine specific to the Parrot VM. Parakeet also had a lot of features not found in standard Forth, like local variables, nested words and classes and (as a result) nested compile-time and run-time lexical word, class and variable scopes.
Removed from the repository (languages/parakeet) prior to 0.4.10,
after having been broken since 0.0.11.
