[Zope] Parrot Language a Hoax?

Casey Duncan cduncan@kaivo.com
Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:37:09 -0600


Jonathan Byron wrote:
> 
> The date of the press release on the merger of python and perl have made a
> few people wonder just how serious it is, not to mention the fact that the
> two languages are so dissimilar that merging them is like merging English
> and Chinese. Seriously, how do you reconcile a concise language with one
> right way to do something with a flexible language that lets you do
> something anyway you want??  Something that was designed to be OO from the
> start with something that wasn't??  Would any existing scripts in either
> Python or Perl run on the new Parrot language?  Or is it part of the Babylon
> of new languages - Yet Another Language to Learn??
> 
> On the other hand, even though Parrot may be a hoax, the idea is not dead,
> deceased, or expired - merely sleeping.
> 
> JB

As was suggested earlier on the list please see:

http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/monty/parrot.html

That *may* clear it up.

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