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authorsno <sno@pkgsrc.org>2013-09-13 11:16:18 +0000
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Adding package for NQP 2013.08 into lang/nqp.
This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a lightweight Perl 6-like environment for virtual machines. The key feature of NQP is that it's designed to be a very small environment (as compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot Virtual Machine [1] and the JVM). Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6, NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine for the virtual machine.
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+This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a lightweight Perl 6-like environment for
+virtual machines. The key feature of NQP is that it's designed to be a
+very small environment (as compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and
+is focused on being a high-level way to create compilers and libraries
+for virtual machines (such as the Parrot Virtual Machine [1] and the JVM).
+Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6, NQP strives to have as
+small a runtime footprint as it can, while still providing a Perl 6 object
+model and regular expression engine for the virtual machine.