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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
- Re:Where the names came from? (Score:1)
  
  by daxim (8218) on 2010.07.19 6:54 (#72181) Homepage Journal
  
  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.
  
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