From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T01:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

Adrian Howard wrote on 8/15/2005 5:48 AM:

>> i hope parrot dies on the vine...but it doesn't look like it's  going to

> Why? 

it started off as an april's fools joke on slashdot (about combining
perl and python or something like that, i still have the page saved
somewhere). the name suggests that perlers were joke's intended target.

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