[FM Discuss] Parrot docs?

[Edward Cherlin]

Allison Randal, head of Parrot and O'Reilly OSCON chair, is interested
in us doing some projects on Parrot and on other O'Reilly projects, in
the manner that Andy Oram and I have been discussing. Parrot is the
all-singing, all-dancing Virtual Machine for Perl6, extended to
support the widest possible range of dynamic programming languages

http://www.parrot.org/languages

on more than 200 hardware/operating system combinations, starting with
x86 (Linux, Mac, Windows) and ARM (Linux). The 1.0 release was in
March, but there is a lot more to do on documentation and books, and
Allison is interested in talking with us about doing it. If you
install parrot and parrot-doc in Linux, you can see much of what there
is.

/usr/share/docs/parrot-doc

I have proposed that the Parrot Foundation talk with ACM about its
intention to create a new Computer Science curriculum, and that they
and we offer to assist in making Parrot an essential part of it with a
set of textbooks. We can also create a CS curriculum for elementary
schools based on Turtle Art, Smalltalk, and Scratch, all of which
offer tile-based, tree-structured programming. Not only are these much
more suitable for children than linear text programming languages, but
the tree is the fundamental CS data structure. A large majority of
compilers turn linear text programs into parse trees for further
processing. Our children can skip that step and go right to the
essentials.

-- 
Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.
http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin)