From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-09-19T08:23:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21361] Re: The Parrot lives!

Edward Wilson wrote:

> What is Parrot?  I went there and got tired of looking for what it is.
>  You would think one would post an intro on the first page.  At least
> brag about the product.

Parrot was originally an April Fools joke which is turning into a real 
project.  Parrot is supposed to be a merging of the Perl and Python 
interpreters so that one runtime would run the source from either of the 
languages or, indeed, as the Joke was perpetrated, run a frankenstein 
Perl+Python language.

I think it is telling that both the Perl and the Python camps realized that 
their respective languages were somehow lacking enough to make such a 
project worthwhile.  (ObRuby -->) I can't, for example, see what Ruby would 
get from a merging with either Python or Perl, although both of those 
languages could benefit from Ruby.

--- SER


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