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Parrot: For Real

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday September 12, 2001 @01:59AM 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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Re:This is just so wrong that it's bound to succee by Zigg · 2001-09-12 02:13 · Score: 3, Insightful

Wait a minute. I thought that Parrot (the package, not the April Fool's Joke) was supposed to be the common VM for Perl and Python, or at least that's what I gathered from the mailing list postings I read about it some time back.

The joke was about merging the syntax from the languages, but the real Parrot is about the VM. I think. :-) The details are really sketchy, and I don't have time to look at the code today (esp. since I'm on Solaris and I doubt it'd even compile).