What the heck is Parrot? Parrot is:
Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for interpreted languages. Parrot will be the target for the final Perl 6 compiler…as well as variety of other languages.
I just talked to chromatic about Parrot. He’s just one of a whole bunch of Perl folks at the Chicago Perl Hackathon working on getting a Parrot release out.
I’m very curious as to how Parrot will turn out. Sounds like it will do Ruby too. The future seems bright for us scripting (dynamic, agile) language users.