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was doing) to produce a much faster recursive descent parser, but when I
heard that Damian Conway was funded to work on C<Parse::FastDescent> and
C<Parse::Perl>, (yes, I have a prototype of that too) I decided to leave
him to it. After all, why should I do the work and have other people get
paid for it? These modules did not materialise, but then, a failure on
his part does not constitute necessity on mine.

While I was messing with Parrot, I wanted to get other languages running
on the VM too, including Python, so I wrote L<Python::Bytecode> to take
apart the Python bytecode format so that it can be reassembled as Parrot
IMCC. Thankfully, Dan's taken this over, updated it for the latest
version of Python, and seems to be making good use of it converting
Python libraries to Parrot.

=head2 And the final joke...

I'm fond of a good joke, the Parrot April Fool's Joke being my pinnacle,
but I have mixed feelings about the C<Acme::> namespace on CPAN. I don't
know why. The thing is that I'd prefer modules which are funny because
they're clever, rather than modules which claim to be funny because
they're copies of other modules that claim to be funny. So my



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