From: Adrian Howard <adrianh@...>
Date: 2005-08-16T01:57:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance


On 15 Aug 2005, at 17:34, tony summerfelt wrote:
[snip]
> 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.

There was a joke instigated by Simon Cozens - a Perl developer - put  
together for OSCON 2001. Aided and abetted by Eric Raymond, Guido van  
Rossum and many more. This was that Perl and Python were being  
merged. See  <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ 
parrotstory_0401.html> for the full story.

The targets were, of course, everybody gullible enough to fall for  
it :-)

Parrot the VM shares nothing beyond the name - and is an interesting  
looking VM for dynamic languages. Including Perl 5 :-)

Adrian