Parrot Virtual Machine

Parrot is a virtual machine like no other. Targeting dynamic languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, and Perl, it incorporates an object-oriented assembly language, is register-based rather than stack-based, and employs continuations as the core means of flow control. It hosts a powerful suite of compiler tools tailored to dynamic languages and a next generation regular expression engine. This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.

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Allison Randal is chief architect and lead developer of the open source project Parrot, and chair of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON).
In over 25 years as a programmer, she has developed everything from games to linguistic analysis tools, e-commerce websites, shipping fulfillment, compilers, and database replication systems, worked as a language designer, project manager, conference organizer, editor, and consultant, been president of an open source software foundation, written two books, and founded a tech publishing company.

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Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 -- Doors open/general socializing & food
7:00 - 7:15 -- Intro talk TBD
7:30 - 8:30 -- Main presentation by Allison Randal on Parrot VM
8:30 - 9:00 -- Main presentation Q&A
9:00 - 10:00 -- General discussion/Q&A/networking/etc.
10:00ish -- end of group