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Parrots, Pythons And Things That Go Splat

Posted by timothy on from the stage-condom-is-a-slippery-meme dept.

ajs writes "As you may know, there was a contest between Dan Sugalski and Guido van Rossum over the performance of Parrot running Python byte-code, and the loser was to take a pie in the face. Well, in the end it was between Dan and time and Dan lost... he was unable to get the Python bytecode translator to work sufficiently well for the contest (it was fast, but not complete), but when Dan conceded, Guido was gracious enough to decline to throw a pie, what a sport! The Perl community, however, was not quite so gracious (they wanted to see Dan take a pie for the team), and the final event ended up being a benefit for the Perl Foundation. Meanwhile, see Dan's Blog for details on what sorts of Parrot goodness came of this."

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  1. FP? by Googo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hmm.. hope this is a first post, but it might not translate in time.

  2. 14th psot !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hurrah !!

  3. #parrot squawks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ............
    <Limbic_Region> but so what if you lose
    <Limbic_Region> according to Dan, the pie was cool and pleasant feeling
    * Limbic_Region winks at Dan
    <Dan> Creamy, and good for the complexion

  4. OT: Not on home page? by ajs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, I submitted this story yesterday, and was looking to see if it showed up today. Turns out it showed up yesterday, but not on the homepage... at least not for me. I wonder if it's because it doesn't have a topic? I put it under Perl as it was about Parrot, and until Parrot has its own topic, Perl seems most apropos. Perhaps they meant to change it to Python, but made a mistake?

    Just guessing.