"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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