Re: Natural Language and Perl 6
Hello On 01/08/2010 11:46, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I'm wondering if any thought has been given to natural language processing with Perl 6 grammars. I Think Perl 6 grammars can implement the most advanced parsing algorithms like Generic LR, that that will not really solve the problem of NLP. Unfortunately. Natural language is too ambiguous and needs special treatment. At least, this is my opinion on working on NLP for the Portuguese for about en years ;) Cheers :) - | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is,| | E-mail: wayl...@wayland.id.au| I am | - BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version 3.12 GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- PE(+) Y+++ PGP-+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI D G+ e++ h! y- -END GEEK CODE BLOCK- -- Alberto Simões
Re: Parrot 0.6.3 Beautiful Parrot Released!
Congratulations. And nice timing. Right before Mozilla gets firefox.com working. Cheers Alberto Nuno 'smash' Carvalho wrote: Greetings, On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.3 Beautiful Parrot. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.6.3 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code. Parrot 0.6.3 News: - Specification + updated pdd09_gc.pod - Languages + Cardinal: - dramatically improved parsing speed - added support for defining and instantiating classes - started fleshing out the builtin class hierarchy - added support for hashes and arrays + Chitchat: added the start of a smalltalk compiler + Pheme: updated to match PGE changes + Pynie: return statement, other minor updates + Rakudo: - added working list and hash contexts - added 'return' statements - added = pair constructor - added ?? !! ternary - added Range, range operators, Complex - added common List, Hash methods - refactored base classes - added Mutable, Perl6Scalar classes - added type-checking, is readonly/rw/copy for parameters - added make localtest, docs/spectest-progress.csv - fix named unaries + Squaak: implement return statement + Tcl: updated control flow exceptions to use new builtin types - Compilers + All tools converted to P6object metamodel + PGE: - ?foo is now a zero-width match - reduced backtracking to improve parsing speed + PCT: - added return PAST.op node type for subroutine returns - added keyed_int scoping to PAST::Var - fixed calls to closures - automatically transcode 7-bit unicode to ascii for faster processing + NQP: added return statement, ?? !! ternary operator - Configuration + expanded step gen::opengl - Implementation + updated function and macro names to match pdd09_gc.pod + removed Super PMC + add .namespace [] as alternative to .namespace + make codetest target runs standard coding tests - Miscellaneous + added P6object class for Perl 6 interfaces to objects in Parrot + ported OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings to Win32, BSD, and more Mac OS X variants + generate OpenGL/GLU/GLUT bindings by parsing system headers + new OpenGL example shapes.pir, covering basic OpenGL 1.1 / GLUT 3 APIs + new float4.pir structure-packing benchmark + reduced memory use for variables + improved constant string caching + made code g++ and gcc (with optimizations) safe + the usual collection of bugfixes and optimizations Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 15 July 2008. Enjoy! ./smash -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
Hi Adriano Ferreira wrote: The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how periodically that would be, but it might be a good idea to join some of them in turns and ask brian d foy to publish them in TPR as well. Just my 5 (euro) cents Cheers ambs -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
Re: Parrot 0.4.2 GPW Released!
Yay! Unfortunately one day of delay. My birthday was yesterday :-P Cheers, and good work. Alberto Leopold Toetsch wrote: On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another 1.5 monthly release of Parrot. GPW is the German Perl Workshop, which will take place next week. I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us. What is Parrot? Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic languages, see http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information. Parrot 0.4.2 changes and news - improved PPC and x86 JIT support including JIT compilation of very simple PASM/PIR subroutines - preliminary libreadline support - better trace and debug features - pkgconfig support - META.yml to support proper indexing on CPAN - new opcode: hcf (in my_ops in dynamic op library) - new File pmc for file specific ops (is_dir, is_file, copy, rename...) - named arguments and parameters (both :named() and = syntaxes) - ongoing config improvements - tons of bug fixes and other small improvements - too much to list all After some pause you can grab it from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.4.2.tar.gz. As parrot is still in steady development we recommend that you just get the latest and best from SVN by following the directions at http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html Turn your web browser towards http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information about Parrot, get involved, and: Have fun! leo -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
