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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
- 0.5.2
- 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
abc
- Description
- Basic calculator. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_%28Unix%29 Implemented with the Parrot compiler tools PGE and TGE.
- Status
- Some failures due to Parrot compiler tools changes. A former implementation in languages/bc has been removed in revision 16528. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
Scheme to PIR with Chicken
- Description
- Patching Chicken so that PIR is generated.
- Status
- Last modified in 2005. The website says:
- Last verified with parrot version
- Unknown
- Location
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~lenz/parrot/
The compiler dumps out code, but I have not yet tried running the code yet.
There are a few design issues left before the code can start running,
and I am discussing these issues on the
chicken-users and parrot-internals mailing lists.
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
- Somewhat functioning, some samples working, lacks IO routines. Not longer actively developed. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
Eclectus
- Description
- A Scheme to PAST compiler implemented in Scheme. Bootstrapping is planned.
- Status
- Planned.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/eclectus
forth
- Description
- forth
- Status
- Broken in 0.5.0; relies on a non-existant opcode
- Last verified with parrot version
- ??
- Location
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
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/jako
Kea Common Lisp
- Description
- Kea Common Lisp is an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp that is based on CMU Common Lisp (see http://www.cons.org/cmucl/). The chief goal of the Kea Common Lisp project is to provide easy interoperability between Lisp and the other dynamic languages hosted on Parrot.
- Status
- The runtime is incomplete, being at the level of a simple desk calculator with an eccentric syntax, but the cross-compiler already supports most of the core semantic repertoire. The cross-compiler is almost capable of compiling itself; when that happens, EVAL will become suddenly much more powerful, and Kea will be able to grow rapidly.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.4.15
- Location
- http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/lisp/kea-cl/
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
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/lazy-k
lolcode
- Description
- Beginnings of an LOLCODE compiler, based on the spec described at http://lolcode.com/specs/1.2
- Status
- VISIBLE and BTW "work"
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/lolcode
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 or at http://www.parrotcode.org/talks/LuaOnParrot.pdf.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- 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. Some tests fail.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- Location
compilers/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
- 0.5.1
- Location
languages/ook
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
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/parrot_compiler
Rakudo
- Description
- This is a PCT based implementation of Perl 6. Actively developed,
- Status
- Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with Parrot version
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/perl6http://rakudo.org
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
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/pheme
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
- 0.4.14
- Location
- http://users.fulladsl.be/spb1622/pjs/
- Wiki
- http://www.perlfoundation.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 different parsing and tree transformation strategies. Currently there are three variants: phc, PGE and ANTLR3.
- Status
- Started.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/plumhead- Wiki
- http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?plumhead
Pugs
- Description
- Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.1
- Location
languages/regex
Scheme
- Description
- A Scheme to PIR compiler implemented in Perl 5.
- Status
- Works as far as implemented. Lists, functions and closures are working but many functions are missing implementation. Works with the current calling conventions. Part of languages smoke testing.
- Last verified with parrot version
- 0.5.0
- 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- 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
- 0.5.2
- Location
languages/WMLScript
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
This section will eventually be removed, for now serves as a pointer to some older implementations.
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.
BASIC/interpreter
BASIC interpreter was written in PASM, and used the global stack. It was last verified working in 0.0.11 before it was removed from languages/BASIC/interpreter prior to 0.5.1.
Cardinal
The version at http://rubyforge.org/projects/cardinal/ has been superseded by the one in the repository. (See above)
Perl 5
From r16836 up to r25231 languages/perl5 served as a repository for some Perl 5 - specific functionality that was heavily used in early parrot development.
Pint
An experimental implementation of PHP. Described at http://www.akbkhome.com/blog.php/View/44/Latest_in_Vapourware_PintCompiler__dbdo.html, but no updates since August 2004, and the link to source is a 404.
Ruby
Removed from trunk of Parrot subversion repository. Up to revision 12805, located in languages/ruby.
SFL
Simple functional language. A quickly abandoned attempt. See http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/parrot/sfl.html
Span
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. Last verified against parrot 0.1.11. http://homepage.mac.com/matt.kennedy/Span
