From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2002-11-10T17:03:53+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: A vision for Parrot

In article <15244159042.20021110101328@integ.ru>, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> the name Parrot was inspired by 1-st april joke that matz and larry
> was codeveloped new language called parrot :)

<ObNitPick>

Actually IIRC the original Parrot was a hybrid of Perl and Python.
The hoax mentioned that Matz had called Larry and Guido thanking them
for the rush of new Ruby users.  Nice to see language differences
being the source of a laugh for once.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty