Is Parrot dead?

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:45:50 -0400, Antaeus Feldspar <feldspar at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>"Ing. Roman Fischer" wrote:
>> 
>> For a long time I do not find informations about Parrot (the programming
>> language). O Reilly still estimates July 2001 for the "Programming in Parrot
>> in a Nutshell"-book and even Amazon (which is not very shy to offer books
>> long before they are available) does not have it in its offer. I also did
>> not find any real complete definitions of this language.
>> 
>> So is this language dead?
>> 
>> Roman
>
>I think I can clear up this confusion.  ^_^  It stems from a huge,
>elaborate April Fool's joke in April of 2001, in which Guido van Rossum
>and O'Reilly books and many other open-source leaders participated.  The
>full story can be found here:
>http://www.oreilly.com/news/parrotstory_0401.html .  
>
>However, that is not the end of the story.  There wasn't ever a real
>language named Parrot that combined the features of Perl and Python. 
>However...  there is now a virtual machine in development that should be
>able to run both Perl and Python code, as well as other interpreted
>languages.  Since the lead developer of this project is the very man who
>orchestrated the Parrot-the-programming-language hoax, Simon Cozens, the
>obvious name for this virtual machine was Parrot.

There is also a GUI-speciofication language I wrote called Parrot. (See
my website for details).

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