A number of languages targeting Parrot are in development. Some of them can be found in the Parrot tarball, in languages/. Others are being developed outside of Parrot.

If you make any changes to this table, please update languages/LANGUAGES_STATUS.pod as well.

Name	Version	Language	Written in	Builds on	Testing	Completeness	Development
APL		APL	Perl6Grammar	Parrot 0.8.1-devel	166/166 (100%)	Unknown	Inactive
BASIC	2.0	BASIC, Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5	Perl, PIR	?	?	Stable?	Inactive
PIR		Parrot Intermediate Representation	Perl6Grammar	Parrot 0.8.1-devel	? (1)	Semistable	Maintenance
WMLScript		WMLScript	PIR	Parrot 0.8.1-devel	358/358 (100%)	Development	Active
Zcode	0.2	Z-machine	PIR	Parrot 0.8.1-devel	0/0 (1)	Development	Inactive
abc		bc	Perl6Grammar	Parrot 0.8.1-devel	161/161 (100%)	Semistable	Inactive
befunge	0.2.2	Befunge	PASM	?	? (1)	Semistable	Inactive
bf		Brainfuck	PIR	Parrot 0.8.1-devel	1/1 (1)	Stable?	Dormant

• (1) One or more tests didn't work.

Status

So it's easy to tell what's going on with a project, I'll categorize statuses on the basis of two criteria:

• Completeness: stable, semistable, development, prototype, unknown
  • Stable: Claims to be version 1.0, 2.0, etc.; tests appear to cover a usable subset of functionality.
  • Semistable: Stable to a deprecated or old standard; can be extended to the latest standard.
  • Development: Claims to be version 0.1, 0.2, etc.; large functionality missing.
  • Prototype: Claims to be development, prototype or no version number; only basic functionality is in.
  • Unknown: I don't understand this language well enough to tell. Please replace this if you can.
• Development: active, maintenance, dormant, inactive
  • Active: Major changes in the last month.
  • Maintenance: Minor changes in the last month.
  • Dormant: No changes in the last month.
  • Inactive: No changes in the last three months.