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- |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
-parrot: Parrot VM - a VM for dynamic languages
-parrot:
-parrot: Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and
+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
+# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
+# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
+# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
+
+ |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
+parrot: parrot (a VM for dynamic languages)
+parrot:
+parrot: Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and
parrot: execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts
-parrot: a variety of dynamic languages such as Tcl, Javascript, Ruby,
+parrot: a variety of dynamic languages such as Tcl, Javascript, Ruby,
parrot: Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator.
-parrot:
-parrot: <http://parrot.org>
parrot:
-parrot:
+parrot: Homepage: http://parrot.org
+parrot:
+parrot:
parrot: