Editing Parrot virtual machine (section)

==History==
The name ''Parrot'' came from an [[April Fool's]] joke which announced a hypothetical language, named ''Parrot'', that would unify [[Python (programming language)|Python]] and [[Perl]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oreilly.com/news/parrotstory_0401.html |title=The Story Behind the Parrot Prank - O'Reilly Media |publisher=Oreilly.com |date=2001-04-06 |access-date=2014-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm |title=Programming Parrot |publisher=Perl.com |access-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm |archive-date=2010-07-18 }}</ref> The name was later adopted by the Parrot project (initially a part of the Raku development effort) which aimed to support Raku, Python, and other programming languages.

The Parrot Foundation was dissolved in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Corporations Advanced Search|url=https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Washington State Department of Licensing|id=UBI 602 839 536}}</ref> The Foundation was created in 2008 to hold the [[copyright]] and [[trademark]]s of the Parrot project, to help drive development of [[Programming language implementation|language implementations]] and the core codebase, to provide a base for growing the Parrot community, and to reach out to other language communities.<ref>[http://www.parrotblog.org/2008/06/announcing-parrot-foundation.html Announcing the Parrot Foundation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629020838/http://www.parrotblog.org/2008/06/announcing-parrot-foundation.html |date=June 29, 2008 }}</ref>

Historical design decisions are documented in the form of Parrot Design Documents, or PDDs, in the Parrot repository.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/latest/html/pdds.html |title=Parrot 6.1.0 - Parrot Design Documents (PDDs) |publisher=Docs.parrot.org |access-date=2014-02-25}}</ref>

Until late 2005, [[Dan Sugalski]] was the lead designer and chief architect of Parrot.  [[Chip Salzenberg]], a longtime Perl, Linux kernel, and C++ hacker, took over until mid-2006, when he became the lead developer. [[Allison Randal]], the lead developer of [[Punie]] and chief architect of Parrot's compiler tools, was the chief architect until mid-October 2010 when she stepped down and chose Christoph Otto as the new chief architect.<ref>{{cite web|last=Otto |first=Christoph |url=http://reparrot.blogspot.com/2010/10/parrot-has-new-architect-what-now.html |title=reparrot: Parrot has a new architect. What now? |publisher=Reparrot.blogspot.com |date=2010-10-21 |access-date=2014-02-25}}</ref>