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Perl + Python = Parrot
chipmunk writes "My prayers have been answered! Larry and Guido have joined forces to produce Parrot, what will surely become the best language ever written. The power of Perl and the sanity of Python. The Py3K and Perl 6 development are merging, with Jeremy Hylton and Dan Sugalski as joint development leads. Read more in the press release on use Perl;, and see a joint interview on perl.com!"
It's about time. It's like the right brain and left brain are working together, at long last. O'Reilly has already inked a deal to publish Programming Parrot, and Yet Another Society is set to merge with the recently launched Python Software Foundation. Both Guido and Larry will be working for ActiveState.
Or does yelling in it's ear and banging it on the table not wake it up and it's nailed to the perch.
DanH
(Happy Apr 1st to you as well.)
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As a Perl coder, i am looking forward to being forced to indent my Perl code to aviod compliation errors.
Besides, the semicolon key on my keyboard has been sticky since i made goatse.cx my homepage.
I hope they merge with C# next, i want to add it to my resume.
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ASCII art?? I thought it was a REGULAR expression
This time, its slashdot that says: YBHT. YHL. HAND.
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I can't believe it took me until the sample code on the interview page to realize it's an April Fool's joke:
Though I will say this: The great thing about Parrot is that it slides past the lameness filter like a greased Scotsman.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
As aliens with no legal rights (but advanced technology we can't communicate with) learn sex tips from ESR, DALNet, Perl and Python have announced that AOL has inserted GPL'd code into Windows, causing many to ask "What isn't in the Internet when Slashdot is at war?". Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy, Star Bridge is using lzip compression to manufacture boots that will let you jump 6 feet in the air, enough to see the movie screen from behind Jon Katz's head.
That sound about right?
# copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with #
while left_angle_right_angle:
if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#":
continue_next;
}
print dollar_underscore;
}
taken from the interview at http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm
give me all your garmonbozia
At least think of something funny to post. Like the Co$ deciding to press on with their lawsuit, for /. posting their sekret scriptures, but willing to drop the case if every registered user agreed to buy a copy of "Battlefield Earth". Or, RMS and ESR announcing a charity boxing match, with the proceeds going to the EFF to pay for 2600's legal bills.
I don't know, maybe it's the combination of April 1, and daylights savings time going into effect, that makes everything seem so lame. I can't wait for this day to be over.
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Software congolmerate Microsoft and Linux giant RedHat announced today that they will work together to produce Microsoft's next generation operating system, Windows X. Microsoft's chief software architect, William H. Gates III called the partnership an "exciting opportunity to steal, err, expand upon the work of thousands of unpaid open source developers".
While RedHat was not available for comment, Apple CEO Steve Jobs did remark that "if that f@#$ing bastard steals my ideas one more time, I'll f@#$ing kick his scrawny b@#%&h ass all the way back to Harvard".
Perl and Python to begin joint development
Well I think that much has been obvious for a while. The question, really, is how much joint development? Are we just talking a blunt every weekend or so, or are these guys dropping a dime bag every day?
That would at least explain the name of $_
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What happens when you outlaw guns
I mean, who the heck is "Pudge"? Has anyone seen an article posted by him/her before?
... us Slashdot editors don't just deal with this crap on April 1st, we deal with this sort of stuff year-round, 365 days a year!"
And would the real Slashdot editors keep up these (insert choice expression here) April 1st stories for this long? Surely even they would be tired of it by now, no? Or are they exacting revenge against the trolls, whiners, and loser story submitters? Is this their way of saying, "See all you Slashdot readers
Perhaps Rob and crew have finally snapped.
I knew larry and guido didn't buy into the knee-jerk antagonism that some folk in their community pursue - but this is quite a big step.
I'm just writing to say i had one small hint about this - there was news circulating in the winux underground(*) about the *book*, of all things! It was apparently noteworthy because it was expected to be about the same size as all the other nutshell books - combined.
This is, um, a big day!
((*) winux underground - a group of computing heretics and general dabblers seeking merger of the windows and linux operating systems - to get the compactness and elegance of windows internals and the grace and ease-of-use of the linux desktop(s), all in one place.)
everything leaks
If you can put this up, then you certainly need to put up Linus's message. He said he submitted it to slashdot.
Is it just me, or is isn't it a shame that all of these cool things get announced on the first of April. I mean, some sort of open, universal VM could be really interesting and useful. Java's virtual machine could be used as such, but it'd be nice to have a VM designed with these ideas in mind, and not controlled by any single entity at the altar of capital...
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
Could we have it be a superset of C++ as well please?
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
Reminds me of the old joke (that foretold the fate of Kaleida and Taligent):
Q: What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?
A: IBM.
-Don
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I was actually thinking this was a real story until I read the line at perl.com about people deciding to use Ruby. I knew it was a hoax at that point.
creation science book
informative???
these moderators have just had their credibility smashed over the head with a rotten potato...
Look, it's not like they expected some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
Two languages, both alike in dignity, in fair Cambridge where we set our scene...
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
Here are some gems. For the rest, check it out! I was literally in tears from laughing so hard...
*BSD users (and
developers) are all complete jackasses, so you'll fit right in.
I know, I have a bit of a gut, but compared to Maddog, Nick Petreley or ESR, I'm a modern Adonis.
Virtually all users of Linux (and all other
forms of Un*x) are unkempt, longhaired, beast-bearded dirty GNU hippies, and I am sick and tired of having to deal with them.
The person I have the greatest problem with is that (in)famous communist RMS. Now, RMS may have been responsible for GNU, the GPL, GCC and many other contributions to the computing community, but his stance, as well as stench, displayed in his essays and actions, nauseates me. I mean, with that filth-ridden beard of his, where does he have room to demand that people refer to Linux as GNU / Linux? When he is as clean-shaven as I, he may claim that right, but until then, he should go back to playing his little flute and dropping acid like there's no tomorrow. Honestly, if he doesn't shut his mouth and go back to reading Marx, I'm going to shut it for him. I am sorry to sound so harsh, but a little hygiene every once in a while is a Good Thing(TM). Makes me wish I'd gone with a closed source license back in the day.
Next in line of dirty scuzz-balls I have to deal with, and probably the worst thorn in my side, is Alan Cox, the primary coder of my kernel's TCP/IP
stack (ha, what a joke!) and all around dirty GNU hippy. Alan views toothpaste the same way a vampire views garlic. The man's wife (who I spent
a few years with at the University of Helsinki) often calls me crying in the middle of the night to complain of the rank, unbearable stench the man exudes after sex. On several occasions at trade shows, exhibitions and beer bashes, I have nearly fainted from the torrent of rotten odor that pours from every inch of his toxic person.
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:05:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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Riiiight. Funny it most certainly was, but Linus it most certainly wasn't.
Also, Linus doesn't sign off with "--Linus Torvalds".
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