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Initial REAMDE updates.
Also needs to provide build instructions for on the JVM.
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=head1 NQP - Not Quite Perl (6)
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NQP is Copyright (C) 2009-2012 by The Perl Foundation. See F<LICENSE>
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NQP is Copyright (C) 2009-2013 by The Perl Foundation. See F<LICENSE>
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for licensing details.
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This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a lightweight Perl 6-like environment
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for virtual machines. The key feature of NQP is that it's
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designed to be a very small environment (as compared with, say, perl6
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or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create
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compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot
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Virtual Machine [1]). Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6,
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NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while
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still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine
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Virtual Machine [1] and the JVM). Unlike a full-fledged implementation
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of Perl 6, NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can,
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while still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine
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for the virtual machine.
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[1] http://parrot.org/
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which aimed to have almost no runtime component whatsoever, this new
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version of NQP accepts that a minimal Perl 6 object metamodel,
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multidispatcher, and regular expression engine are needed on top of
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the underlying virtual machine. Also, nqp-rx is likely to only run
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on Parrot, whereas we expect NQP to eventually run on other virtual
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machine backends.
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the underlying virtual machine. Also, nqp-rx only ran on Parrot,
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whereas NQP also runs on the JVM and is designed to be portable to
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more.
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[2] http://github.com/perl6/nqp-rx
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