[Zope] Parrot Language a Hoax?

[Jonathan Byron]

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