Re^2: How much Perl6 have we got?

[stu42j]

in reply to Re: How much Perl6 have we got?
in thread How much Perl6 have we got?

So, did the joke inspire the real Parrot or was the idea of a multi-language virtual machine already being worked on?

[davorg]

I don't think the joke made people think "actually, that's want we really need for Perl 6". But once someone came up with the idea of multi-language virtual machine it didn't take long for someone to remember the joke and realise that the VM had to be called Parrot.