"covers the basic features and syntax of this powerful new hybrid language, and provides reference material for many of its most important interfaces and tools, including Internet scripting, systems programming, ParroTk, C integration, Jarrot, Active Scripting and COM extensions, Gnope (GNU/Zope), PSP server pages, restricted execution mode, the Comprehensive Parrot Archive Network (a.k.a. the Vaults of Madagascar), the HTMLgen and SWIG code generators, thread support, Unicode, EBCDIC and Baudot support, JAPHs, and more."