[Tutor] Is Parrot an April Fool's joke?

[Pedro Diaz Jimenez]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Yeah, I saw the code. In one word: Joke 

for the people who didn't saw it, it was something like:

function open_curly_brace
	if dolar_sign_A == "some text" open_curly_brace
		....
	close_curly_brace
close_curly_brace
hah!

Cheers
Pedro
 
On Monday 02 April 2001 23:03, Rob Andrews wrote:
> I've assumed it's just a prank, but the idea is so freakish that some of
> the people here in the office claim to like the prospect. Aside from the
> fact that the articles were all dated Apr 1, the code snippets they
> provided were just implausible. (Using closing curly braces to end nested
> blocks?! Hardly.)
>
> Rob
>
> > Pretty sure is a joke. Was on the april fool's series in slashdot
> >
> > Cheers
> > Pedro
> >
> > On Monday 02 April 2001 19:33, Rob Andrews wrote:
> > > According to several articles found on the web (all dated the 1st of
>
> April)
>
> > > in places like perl.com, python.org, and oreilly.com, Parrot is a
>
> language
>
> > > in development intended to merge Python and Perl. Does anyone know what
>
> the
>
> > > story is?
> > >
> > > http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Tutor maillist  -  Tutor@python.org
> > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux)
> > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
> >
> > iD8DBQE6yOPZnu53feEYxlERAl8jAJ93Ys/SVgfjl1Eu7LaX/GBKAo/ZfACZAYob
> > 6e0EWaV80pMiT4qvEgWucTI=
> > =R6bD
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Tutor maillist  -  Tutor@python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tutor maillist  -  Tutor@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE6yPqqnu53feEYxlERAhZHAKDHw8VXuRTdB5hpemjj+wIHcNAgiwCgruON
/2WHRvhRuj6gBUL8OsTds2o=
=0kVx
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----