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Nicholas Clark

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Aug 27, 2003, 7:11:12 PM8/27/03
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I'm not convinced this is very good. But I believe that it is an accurate
mission statement, for at least one of our goals:

Perl internals slow,
nigh on unmaintainable.
So we write parrot.

Nicholas Clark

Sean O'Rourke

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Aug 27, 2003, 8:22:25 PM8/27/03
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Nicholas Clark <ni...@ccl4.org> writes:
> Perl internals slow,
> nigh on unmaintainable.
> So we write parrot.

Parrot: not just Perl
but punctuated prowess
perfected -- Befunge.

/s

Brent Dax

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Aug 27, 2003, 8:27:59 PM8/27/03
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Nicholas Clark:
# Perl internals slow,
# nigh on unmaintainable.
# So we write parrot.

Soon we all decide
That others could use it too.
Cherry trees blossom.

:^)

--Brent Dax <br...@brentdax.com>
Perl and Parrot hacker

"Yeah, and my underwear is flame-retardant--that doesn't mean I'm gonna
set myself on fire to prove it."

Nicholas Clark

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Aug 28, 2003, 4:44:12 AM8/28/03
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:14:15PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Sounds like PONIE.

Nah. Reasoning there is slightly different. Maybe:

Perl 6 running late,
won't run existing CPAN,
I want a Ponie

Nicholas Clark

Chromatic

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Aug 28, 2003, 1:09:52 PM8/28/03
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Refactoring: good!
Rewriting takes lots of time.
I want a Ponie.

-- c

Zach Lipton

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Aug 29, 2003, 1:10:05 AM8/29/03
to Michael G Schwern, perl6-i...@perl.org
In honor of Schwern,

Refactoring: good!
Testing is even better
QA is job 1

Zach

Chip Salzenberg

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Aug 29, 2003, 2:24:50 AM8/29/03
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Shimmer in distance:
Floor wax *and* dessert topping!
Shine will be tasty.

--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <ch...@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K

Leopold Toetsch

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Aug 29, 2003, 4:47:59 AM8/29/03
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Nicholas Clark <ni...@ccl4.org> wrote:

> Perl internals slow,
> nigh on unmaintainable.
> So we write parrot.

Parrots circling
above a young ponie.
Camel in desert.

> Nicholas Clark

leo

James Michael Dupont

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Aug 29, 2003, 5:26:06 AM8/29/03
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My haiku, compiled with -debug

based on the instructions :
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
this is even contain a seasonal reference to the thought's blossoming
in spring.

1 1 1 2 = 5
The Mind looks inside :

2 1 1 1 2 = 7
Describe form of thought's blossom

1 4
This : introspection! = 5
----
17 sylables

--- Mike

Bad spellers of the world : UNTIE


=====
James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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