And we can feature lzip in Programming Parrot In A Nutshell, due out in July (that is if Guido and Larry get their manuscript in on time). http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/ Laura LLewin at oreilly.com >===== Original Message From "Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> ===== >[Moshe Zadka] >> You shouldn't worry about idiotic things like bzip2, when superior >> technologies like lzip (http://lzip.sourceforge.net). I am now working >> on a reimplementation of lzip in Python, since I feel the current lzip >> code base is too messy to use. Expect updates! > >Moshe, would you consider recoding it in Parrot instead? We need a crown >jewel to spur interest in the new language, and to date no Python *or* Perl >implementations of lzip exist. In fact, it's reliably rumored that Rivest >and Graham have a proof that lzip cannot be coded in Perl. Since Perl was >previously proven Turing-complete, you can imagine the panic that will ensue >when they finally publish, and Parrot could score a huge win in academia then >if we had a program proving that Parrot is even more Turing-complete than >Perl. > >always-suspected-math-was-a-baseless-fraud-ly y'rs - tim >
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