On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Leon Brocard wrote:
>
> > ps You might be concerned about the name. Well, CPAN has a module
> >    which matches /fuck/ too. However, if everyone really thinks
> >    it is a problem, I don't see a problem with s/fuck/funk/g
>
> Well, I'll speak up.  I find the name needlessly crude and offensive.  I
> see no reason to use such a name and would strongly prefer that Parrot
> didn't.  Parrot is a collective project representing a community of
> developers, and I, for one, don't wish to be associated with needlessly
> crude and offesnsive language.

Good for you, I agree (FWIW, since I haven't done much parrot dev - yet),
and it's also unprofessional, which may not matter now but might down the
road.  Yes, the language is called that... do we have to (sorry) parrot it?

Dave
Isa. 40:31

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