Hi Leon!
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > I like it
>
> The following amusing entries were posted on london.pm-list but
> I haven't seen them here, so without further ado:
>
> Greg McCarroll:
> pbc could be shortened to pb, which has two meanings
> precompiled byte code and pretty boy, as in "who is
> a pretty boy, *squawk*
>
> I'm guessing that the assembler code is not 8-bit,
> so we cannot make a .po8 as in "pieces of 8", aka parrot
> opcodes 8-bit, or some such tomfoolery
>
> .seed is always good as something that parrot can
> swallow up nicely
>
> precompiled code could have the extension .dead as in
> the parrot code is dead, it is dead parrot code, it
> is not running
In that case, "DEADC0DE" would be an appropriate heaxadecimal magic
header just like "CAFEBABE" is for java .class files.
>
> if we ever have safe and unsafe code where we check
> parity, we could have .pcc , parrot-y checked code
> (ok that was really bad)
>
> if ingy ever does anything like Inline for parrot,
> it could be called parott-ing
> (i better stop soon)
>
> .parrots is quite lame, but could be parrot source
>
> .feather could represent light to run code, as in
> precompiled bytecode
>
> ok, thats bad enough
>
> Patrick Carmichael:
> Parrot stuffit files for Macs would be .psit
> My daughter suggests .pex files - for executables, perhaps?
>
> Lucy McWilliam:
> .rip?
>
> HTH, Leon
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