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Wonderful post (Score:1)

by Illusori (9582)

Wonderful post.
Where the names came from? (Score:1)

by jnareb (9333)

Very nice post!
Do you know perchance where the names came from:
* Parrot
* Rakudo
* Ponie
* Pugs
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  by daxim (8218)
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine#History [wikipedia.org]
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakudo_Perl#Name [wikipedia.org]
  Ponies: a running gag. Everybody wants one [cpan.org], but only Jifty comes with one [jifty.org]. Let's best not get into the details of London.pm's [pm.org] weird [p3rl.org] fetishes [p3rl.org]…
  Pugs is written in Haskell. hugs is the name of a Haskell compiler, pugs is a Perl 6 compiler; my speculation is that name was chosen to be appealing to both camps, cute backronym [pugscode.org] notwithstanding.
great article (Score:2)

by jmm (276)

A wonderful article. At first, I thought that you were unaware of the Topaz incarnation of "Perl 6", but I agree that it is not really something to consider as part of Perl 6 as it became and should not affect the anniversary date. The mugs jokes had me expecting something that would refer to a broken mug being unable to hold java but could still hold something even more important. The pugs description brings back great memories of the 2005 YAPC::NA hackathon. I think it was the second or third ha
Fan-damn-tastic (Score:1)

by thickas (5805)

Thanks !
I am really grateful for the link to Audreys note about the fate of Pugs.
It is good to remember that severe damage can come from words.
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  by audreyt (6654)
  
  Ah. But words can heal, too...
  Translating this series to Chinese has been deeply therapeutic for myself, and I'd like to thank masak++ again for bringing me back to #perl6. :-)
  - Re: (Score:1)
    
    by thickas (5805)
    
    God bless you Audrey.
    Pugs made this non contributor (except in a limited financial sense) v happy. Living for me in 05 was reading the Pugs blog and watching things happen.
    Audrey++
    - Re: (Score:1)
      
      by audreyt (6654)
      
      Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot to me.
      #perl6 is even more active today than it was before; things are happening there very smoothly and pleasantly... The lambda-butterflies are so adorable nowadays.
      Ah, this must be how a proud grandparent feel like. :-)
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    by masak (6289)
    
    I'd like to thank masak++ again for bringing me back to #perl6. :-)
    Oh, I did, didn't I? :-)
    * masak rejoices