[Zope] Parrot Language a Hoax?

[Eric Walstad]

"Gnope (GNU/Zope)"
Heehee...
http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/desc.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Michael R. Bernstein
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 3:09 PM
> To: Jonathan Byron
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Parrot Language a Hoax?
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> I am trying to find a polite way to say 'Duh!'.
> 
> This idea is so improbable, that not even the page on
> O'Reilly's site could make me blink:
> http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/
> 
> I mean, look at this code:
> 
>     # copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with #
>          while left_angle_right_angle:
>              if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#":
>                  continue_next;
>              }
>         print dollar_underscore;
>     }
> 
> Or this one:
> 
>     while(@line = Sys::Stdin->readline()):
>         continue_next if $line[0] =eq= "#":
>         print @line;
>     }
> 
> 
> Bleh! 
> 
> Michael Bernstein.
> 
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