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Pugs (compiler)
Pugs is a compiler and interpreter for the Raku programming language, begun on 1 February 2005, by Audrey Tang. Raku was then called Perl 6. As of 21 April 2010, Pugs development was placed on hiatus, with most Raku implementation efforts moving to Rakudo. Overview The Pugs project aimed to bootstrap Perl 6 by implementing the full Perl 6 specification, as detailed in thSynopses It is written in Haskell, specifically targeting the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Pugs includes two main executables: * ''Pugs'' is the interpreter with an interactive shell. * ''Pugscc'' can compile Perl 6 programs into Haskell code, Perl 5, JavaScript, or Parrot virtual machine's Parrot intermediate representation (PIR) assembly language. Pugs is free and open-source software, distributable under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License. These are the same terms as Perl. Version numbering The major/minor version numbers of Pugs converge to 2π (being reminiscent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Tang
Tang Feng ( zh, t=唐鳳, p=Táng Fèng; born 18 April 1981), also known by her English name Audrey, is a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024. She has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities". In August 2016, Tang was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet. Tang has identified as "Postgenderism, post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online." Tang is a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language Community of interest, communities, and is the core member of g0v. Early life Tang was born in Taipei to father Tang Kuang-hua and mother Lee Ya-ching. When she was four, she was diagnosed with a heart condition that had a 50% survival rate. Lee Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |