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Parrot: For Real

Posted by Hemos on from the and-you-thought-it-was-a-joke dept.

Thanks to Pudge of Slashteam for pointing out that very early version of Parrot has been released. You may recall Parrot from The April Fool's joke - but it's coming to life.

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  1. Parrot-Script by ksb · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can almost feel someone contemplating a sever side module for apache using this as an embedded web page script.

  2. This is just so wrong that it's bound to succeed. by plover · · Score: 3, Funny
    A language with the readability of Perl and the maintainability of Python. I hope they threw in the "significant filename" convention from Java while they were at it.



    Yikes. I think I just described C#.



    John

    --
    John
  3. Dead Parrot by Root+Down · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am still not convinced that this Parrot would voom if you put 5000 volts through it.

  4. I wasn't expecting Parrot by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guido:I wasn't expecting Parrot...

    Larry: Nobody expects Parrot! Our chief trait is laziness...laziness and impatience...impatience and laziness...Our two traits are laziness and impatience...and hubris...Our *three* main traits are laziness, impatience, and hubris...and a ridiculous habit of quoting JR Tolkien...Our *four*..no... *Amongst* our traits...are such elements as laziness, impatience...I'll come in again.

  5. Re:Who is behind Parrot? by jekk · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's likely to be the result of mis-use of Guido's time machine.

  6. 100% compression by tplayford · · Score: 3, Funny

    When is someone going to implement that 100% data compression sysem I heard so much about around April time? I'm sure it would be very usefull! Just think about all the possibilities!

  7. What's the world coming to? by quartz · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a long time Perl zealot, I'd like to take this opportunity to vigorously protest this move. Posts on both Perl and Python mailing lists suggest that there *is* going to be some compromise at language syntax level to accomodate the common runtime. From the Perl perspective it's like "well, Perl 6 was going to be fully OO anyway, so what difference are going to make a few concession in syntax"? Well, I strongly object! I mean, I spent so much time learning Perl so I could be different and write cool obfuscated "Japh" sigs, and NOW they're going to make Perl look and feel just like every other C# on the planet? I've had it! If THAT's gonna get implemented, I vow to completely abandon my Monk robe and to only code in Visual Basic! Brother Monks, I urge you to join me in my protest so that the despicable traitor Larry Wall will see the error of his ways and will hopefully change his mind about this Frankensteinian abomination! United we will succeed!

    :-)

  8. Someone didn't get the joke by digital_freedom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parrot was an April Fools' gag.

    This is what happens when jokes go bad. I hope the /. editors consider this carefully next April. Otherwise we might have a story about Bill Gates & Bill Joy collaborating to produce a new proprietary rock-solid server GUI.

    Windows + Sun = Greenhouse

    Sheesh... Then someone will implement it...

  9. Visual Seasick by jdfox · · Score: 5, Funny
    In a related development, Microsoft has announced the immediate availability, in Q2 2002, of their new .Net hybrid of Visual C++ and Visual Basic, to be known as Visual Seasick.

    Visual Seasick will offer all the elegance and ease-of-use of C++, fused with the raw power and scalability of Visual Basic.

    Analyst Larry Bribewell of the respected IT Research firm Rentrag Group, predicts big things for this de facto industry-standard language: "the first release, version 3.1, looks rock solid. We predict [0.8] it will overtake Parrot in quarterly revenue by Q1 2002."
    (c) 2001, ZDnot.