The Parrot Lives, Or Does It?

Posted by timothy on Friday September 7, 2001 @12:25AM from the pinin'-for-the-fjords dept.

CosmicDreams writes: "Last April fools, I was indeed fooled by a slashdot article that claimed that Python and Perl developers were going to join forces and merge their current development trees into a new computer language called Parrot. It seems as though my foolishness was well placed. Today I came across this story In the article, it talks about the ongoing progress of the language and what plans the developers have for the near future. Now I'm so confused I don't really know if this is for real or not. Does someone know if this is the same Parrot programming language. I don't want to place my foolishness foolheartedly."

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Codename for the Perl 6 internals by FredtheDead · 2001-09-07 03:16 · Score: 1

It's the code name for the Perl 6 internals, as a continuation of the Parrot joke of April Fools fame.
The Parrot Squawks
It lives--see Python developers' list by sam_penrose · 2001-09-07 07:58 · Score: 2, Informative

The long thread starts here and continues well into August.