[DOCS] Updated intro.pod

[Jonathan Worthington]

Hi,

I noticed that intro.pod is someone behind where Parrot currently is, in a
big way. It doesn't make a single mention of PIR for one, and all the
examples are in PASM, which is for "silicon based lifeforms". I think most
of the readers of intro.pod will be carbon based ones. ;-)

So, I re-wrote it. It now talks about PIR, and has examples in PIR. It
mentions how PIR differs from PASM. Subroutines now get a look in to the
introduction, and it mentions in passing that Parrot is capable of doing OO
stuff, threads and GC. I've attached it for review and, if nobody yelps in
horror, I'll commit it in a couple of days. Suggestions for improvements
are welcome, though as it's an intro it probably doesn't want to get too
much longer.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[Autrijus Tang]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:03:25AM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> So, I re-wrote it. It now talks about PIR, and has examples in PIR. It
> mentions how PIR differs from PASM. Subroutines now get a look in to the
> introduction, and it mentions in passing that Parrot is capable of doing OO
> stuff, threads and GC. I've attached it for review and, if nobody yelps in
> horror, I'll commit it in a couple of days. Suggestions for improvements
> are welcome, though as it's an intro it probably doesn't want to get too
> much longer.

I did some spellchecking, PODification, and also some pedantic
wordsmithing (as attached). Hope it helps.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

[Jonathan Worthington]

Thanks, Autrijus, that's really great! I'm just tidying it up so line
length's are maximum of 80 characters, then I'll commit it.

Jonathan