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.IX Title "PARROT-NQP 1"
.TH PARROT-NQP 1 "2013-01-28" "Debian Project" "Debian GNU/Linux manual"
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.SH "NAME"
parrot\-nqp \- Not Quite Perl (6)
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
parrot-nqp <file>
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This is \*(L"Not Quite Perl (6)\*(R" \*(-- a High Level Language (\s-1HLL\s0) which allows one to
write Perl6\-like code. The key feature of \s-1NQP\s0 is that it's designed to be an
easy-to-parse subset of Perl 6. It is geared towards being a high-level way to
create transformers for Parrot (especially \s-1HLL\s0 compilers).  It is based on
PCT::HLLCompiler.
.PP
\&\s-1NQP\s0 is used as a bootstrapping language in for Rakudo, and hence developed
outside of the main Parrot git repository. It is occasionally snapshotted into
the main Parrot codebase so it can be bundled with Parrot releases and be used
by core Parrot developers as well as \s-1HLL\s0 developers.
.SS "Command Line Usage"
.IX Subsection "Command Line Usage"
For help use :
.PP
.Vb 2
\&    \-h
\&    \-\-help
.Ve
.PP
To show version use :
.PP
.Vb 2
\&    \-v
\&    \-\-version
.Ve
.PP
To display the parse tree for regular expression use  :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-target=parse
.Ve
.PP
To dispaly the \s-1PIR\s0 subroutine gererated to match the regular expression use :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-target=pir
.Ve
.PP
For dumper use :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-dumper=s
.Ve
.PP
To trace use :
.PP
.Vb 2
\&    \-t=s
\&    \-\-trace=s
.Ve
.PP
For encoding use :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-encoding=s
.Ve
.PP
To combine use :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-combine
.Ve
.PP
For stage stats use :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-stagestats
.Ve
.PP
For backtrace use :
.PP
.Vb 1
\&    \-\-ll\-backtrace
.Ve
.PP
For output use :
.PP
.Vb 2
\&    \-o=s
\&    \-\-output=s
.Ve
.SH "HELP"
.IX Header "HELP"
For more help or any other question you go to <http://parrot.org> or
<http://github.com/parrot/parrot>.Or you can send email to 'parrot\-dev@parrot.org'.
You are also invited to join the #parrot \s-1IRC\s0 channel on irc.parrot.org.