Parrot releases 0.4.16, Allison hits grant milestones

Parrot 0.4.16 has been released to the wild. As always, code is available at parrotcode.org. Notable in this release:

• Code review on every PMC
• PMC code generation now uses Storable to reduce compile time
• Automated test coverage data of C source
• Design document PDD17 covering PMCs is complete
• Added lists, for loops, operators, comparison and multiplicative operators for NQP

What's NQP? It's "Not Quite Perl", and is an implementation of a subset of Perl 6 in Parrot. NQP will be used for all compiler tools for languages using Parrot as a way to bootstrap the Perl 6 implementation.

Finally, Allison Randal has been working on Parrot full time, with her machine funded by a Perl Foundation grant. Details of the grant progress are available, including ... <fanfare type="trumpet"/> a schedule! And she's reached the milestones on it! Huzzah! Perhaps other parts of the Parrot and Perl 6 projects could create and publish schedules as well...