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+This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a lightweight Perl 6-like environment
+for virtual machines. The key feature of NQP is that it's
+designed to be a very small environment (as compared with, say, perl6
+or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create
+compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot
+Virtual Machine). Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6,
+NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while
+still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine
+for the virtual machine.