Editing Pugs (compiler) (section)

==Overview==
The Pugs project aimed to [[Bootstrapping (compilers)|bootstrap]] Perl 6 by implementing the full Perl 6 specification, as detailed in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20050222013737/http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/ Synopses]. It is written in [[Haskell]], specifically targeting the [[Glasgow Haskell Compiler]].

Pugs includes two main executables:
* ''Pugs'' is the interpreter with an interactive shell.
* ''Pugscc'' can compile Perl 6 programs into Haskell code, Perl 5, [[JavaScript]], or [[Parrot virtual machine]]'s [[Parrot intermediate representation]] (PIR) [[assembly language]].

Pugs is [[free and open-source software]], distributable under the terms of either the [[GNU General Public License]] or the [[Artistic License]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/01Overview.html |title=Pugs Apocryphon 1<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-03-09 |archive-date=2007-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305173601/http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/01Overview.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> These are the same terms as Perl.