Ticket #839: book-ch01_introduction.patch
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14 14 Fools' Day joke in 2001, Simon Cozens published "Programming Parrot", a 15 15 fictional interview between Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall detailing their 16 16 plans to merge Python and Perl into a new language called Parrot 17 ( U<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm>).17 (L<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm>). 18 18 19 19 =head2 Parrot Resources 20 20 21 21 The starting point for all things related to Parrot is the main website 22 U<http://www.parrot.org/>. The site lists additional resources, well as recent22 L<http://www.parrot.org/>. The site lists additional resources, well as recent 23 23 news and information about the project and the Parrot Foundation, which holds 24 24 the copyright over Parrot and helps guide development and the community. 25 25 … … 27 27 28 28 Parrot includes extensive documentation in the distribution. The full 29 29 documentation for the latest release is available online at 30 U<http://docs.parrot.org/>.30 L<http://docs.parrot.org/>. 31 31 32 32 =head3 Mailing Lists 33 33 … … 38 38 you're interested in getting involved in development, you may also want to 39 39 follow the I<parrot-commits> and I<parrot-tickets> lists. Information on all 40 40 the Parrot mailing lists and subscription forms for each is available at 41 U<http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo>.41 L<http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo>. 42 42 43 43 The archives for I<parrot-dev> are also available on Google Groups at 44 U<http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-dev> and via NNTP at45 U<nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.parrot.devel>.44 L<http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-dev> and via NNTP at 45 L<nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.parrot.devel>. 46 46 47 47 =head3 IRC 48 48 … … 50 50 X<IRC channel (#parrot)> 51 51 52 52 Parrot developers and users congregate on IRC at C<#parrot> on the 53 U<irc://irc.parrot.org> server. It's a good place to get real-time answers to53 L<irc://irc.parrot.org> server. It's a good place to get real-time answers to 54 54 questions or see how things are progressing. 55 55 56 56 =head3 Issue Tracking & Wiki … … 58 58 X<trac.parrot.org website> 59 59 X<issue tracking (trac.parrot.org)> 60 60 61 Parrot developers track issues with a Trac site at U<https://trac.parrot.org/>.61 Parrot developers track issues with a Trac site at L<https://trac.parrot.org/>. 62 62 Users can submit new tickets and track the status of existing tickets. The 63 63 site also includes a wiki used in project development, a source code browser, 64 64 and the project roadmap. … … 69 69 70 70 Parrot's first release occurred in September 2001. It reached 1.0 in March 71 71 2009. The Parrot project makes releases on the third Tuesday of each month. Two 72 releases a year E<mdash> occuring every January and July E<mdash>are72 releases a year -- occuring every January and July -- are 73 73 "supported" releases intended for production use. The other ten releases are 74 74 development releases for language implementers and testers. 75 75 … … 147 147 X<HLL developer role> 148 148 149 149 Developers who work on any of the high-level languages that target 150 Parrot E<mdash>such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or TclE<mdash>are150 Parrot--such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or Tcl--are 151 151 high-level language developers. The Parrot repository includes a few example 152 152 languages. A full list of languages is available at 153 U<https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Languages>.153 L<https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Languages>. 154 154 155 155 =item Build Manager 156 156