Parrot BASIC - Programming language

Parrot BASIC is a programming language created in 2009.

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Parrot is a register-based process virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages efficiently. It is possible to compile Parrot assembly language and PIR (an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and execute it. Parrot is free and open source software.Parrot was started by the Perl community and is developed with help from the open source and free software communities. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of Parrot BASIC happened in https://www.perl.org
See also: (30 related languages) C, Parrot Assembly, PIR, Perl, Raku, Python, JVM, LLVM IR, Java, Java Bytecode, Joy, Lua, PHP, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl, WMLScript, Arc, APL, Common Lisp, Lisp, Forth, QuickBASIC, Smalltalk, CIL, Befunge, Brainfuck, LOLCODE, UNLAMBDA, Unicode

Example from Wikipedia:

.sub 'main' :main
    $I1 = 4
    inc $I1     # $I1 is now 5
    $I1 += 2    # $I1 is now 7
    $N1 = 42.0
    dec $N1     # $N1 is now 41.0
    $N1 -= 2.0  # $N1 now 39.0
    print $I1
    print ', '
    print $N1
    print "\n"
 .end

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X