[Zope] Parrot Language a Hoax?

[Michael R. Bernstein]

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.