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star/parrot/ext/nqp-rx/README   Annotate this POD   NQP - Not
Quite Perl (6) ^  NQP is Copyright (C) 2009 by Patrick R.
Michaud. See LICENSE for licensing details.  This is "Not Quite
Perl" -- a compiler for quickly generating PIR routines from
Perl6-like code. The key feature of NQP is that it's designed to
be a very small compiler (as compared with, say, perl6 or
Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create
transformers for Parrot (especially hll compilers). In addition,
unlike Rakudo, NQP attempts to restrict itself to generating
code that can run in Parrot without the existence of any NQP-
specific runtime libraries.  Building from source  NQP comes
bundled with Parrot, so if you have a recent Parrot distribution
you likely also have a copy of NQP. Inside of a Parrot
installation NQP is known as parrot-nqp.  To build NQP from
source, you'll just need a make utility and Perl 5.8 or newer.
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