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I really had to double-check the date to see that it wasn't an April Fools joke :) Historically, programming languages claiming rewrites in some other 'competi
by willvarfar 9y ago
I really had to double-check the date to see that it wasn't an April Fools joke :)
Historically, programming languages claiming rewrites in some other 'competing' language have been April Fools fodder e.g. Emacs in Perl https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.en.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.en.html
- labster 9y agoPerl 6 on Javascript is real, though. Rakudo.js has come a long way, but it's not passing all of the tests yet. It's a quite a bit bigger task to convert a kitchen sink language than a smaller language like Lua. http://blogs.perl.org/users/pawel_murias/ http://blogs.perl.org/users/pawel_murias/
- devposter 9y agoFSF's pedantry in the "Emacs in Perl" joke page is fascinating: "The Free Software Foundation does not claim copyright for this joke."
- coldnose 9y agoI was also reminded of one: http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-group-announces-jjava.html http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-group-anno... ... didn't know this was an April 1st tradition though