POLLY: An IDE for Parrot

[Warren Postma]

Polly 1.0
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What Is It?
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A nice Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Parrot language
invented by GvR and the Wall-meister, with contributions from the open
source community.

Online Help Feature
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When you hit F1, it will print out a random insult, and suggest that you
read a randomly generated ANSI,
ISO, or MIL-STD spec serial number, and impolitely suggest that you go away,
or it will pop up a prefabricated answer from the code-snippet library of
one of the friendly neighborhood usenet-Bots, translating from Python
internal syntax to Parrot syntax for display, and inserting one hard to find
scope error along the way, courtesy of mangled indentations, similar to the
functionality built into Outlook Express.   This feature alone should really
lower the congestion on comp.lang.perl and comp.lang.python substantially.

GUI Builder
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The GUI uses a combination of Tk, wxWindows, and the raw XLib and Win32 GDI
APIs.  The GUI Frames manager has a built in "themes" mode that can simulate
(a) incredibly ugly Tk widgets, (b) Win32 text widget that flicker, and
Win32 32x32 16 color Icons that just plain refuse to appear, or (c)
WxWindows widgets that consume 10Kb of additional memory per window event or
mouse click, for each item on the screen.


Any interest?


Warren