[Tutor] Is Parrot an April Fool's joke?

[Benoit Dupire]

Daniel Yoo wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Daniel Yoo wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Rob Andrews wrote:
> > > http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm
> >
> > It's a joke.  Read the example source code that GvR and LR show: it's
>                                                           ^^
>
> Waaa..  I'm reading too much into LR parsing... meant to say Larry Wall.
> Sorry about that.

I would be interested to know how LR parsing works...
I don't want to take much of your time, it's slightly off context...
If you could explain it very briefly.. thanks..
Benoit