"Fastest growing programming language"

Jaap Spies j.spies at hccnet.nl
Thu Apr 5 18:00:03 EDT 2001


Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Rosimildo da Silva <rdasilva at connecttel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Roy Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It's based on the only metric that makes sense: the rate of
>>>> increase of Usenet traffic in c.l.<whatever>.
>>> 
>>> By that measure, wouldn't Parrot be the fastest growing? :-)
>> 
> 
>> Is this PARROT thing for real ? or was it just some
>> April's Fool joke. ?
> 
> 
> I don't know. I just know the PSU explicitly strongly denied there is
> anything real whatsoever about Parrot. That is, if the PSU existed, which
> it doesn't, of course.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn

But Shakespeare said:

Much Ado About Nothing: Scene I Act II:
[BEATRICE]
     Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such
     a face as yours were.
[BENEDICK]
     Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
[BEATRICE]
     A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.

Jaap Spies




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