On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 04:36:51PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Dan Sugalski writes: > > Okay--Parrot Object Code. (If I was feeling cleverer at the moment, I'd > > come up with a name that has a snappier acronym. Alas I'm not... :) > > p-code. The p stands for Parrot :-) No, it stands for "pieces of eight". The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" > Nat -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
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