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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. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.