On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:11:01PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > The big reason for Parrot was that I was terribly amused by Simon's joke,
> > and I have visions of releasing perl 6.0 on April 1 next year... :)
> >
> > Other than that, I really don't care much, though a good (or bad) pun is
> > always a big plus.
>
> Starting with 'P' is useful so we can keep our acronyms such as PMC and
> PDD :-). It's just an internal code name, so it probably doesn't matter if
> it's taken for another purpose.
Wasn't Perl also taken, so why care...? I vaguely remember reading
about another language called PERL...
> --
> Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dept. of Physics
> Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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