[Edinburgh-pm] Emergency Parrot

[Robert Rothenberg]

So what are the plans for this, if not on the 17th?

On 26/02/09 15:35 Aaron Crane wrote:
> Murray writes:
>> I hear voices in my head saying Parrot 1.0 may hit ~17th March 2009.
>> This strikes me as cause for an emergency social
> 
> Yay, cheap excuse for drinking!
> 
>> (parrot hitting 1.0, not the voices in my head)
> 
> Oh, shame.
> 
>> and further perhaps worth extending the invite to all the other
>> locals who deal in languages that Parrot claims to host [1]
> 
> I'm down with that.  I think the Perl community and the communities
> surrounding other dynamic languages share common cause a lot more than
> we tend to assume.  Since Parrot aims to be a VM for implementing such
> a wide range of dynamic languages, this seems like a particularly good
> event for us to get together with our counterparts elsewhere.
> 
>> Further, I would like to propose the following as a venue for said
>> social:
>>
>> http://www.cumberlandbar.co.uk/
>>
>> It serves food, has oodles of space, and is reasonably central.  And
>> also has some decent real ales.
> 
> Ah, a fine choice, sir -- that's a nice wee boozer.
>