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LOLCODE has been getting a lot of love from the [[news:i-haz-a-parrot|Parrot community]]. First, the O'Reilly blog network reported on [[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/what_the_perl_6_and_parrot_hac.html|the rapidly expanding LOLCODE-Parrot implementation]] as a year-end holiday activity. Now comes the news that [[http://www.parrotcode.org/news/2008/Parrot-0.5.2.html|LOLCODE has been integrated]] into [[http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html|Parrot 0.5.2]].

When this whole thing started last May, I kept saying that I envisaged LOLCODE as a teaching language. What I hadn't expected was seeing it come up everywhere as a teaching tool for compiler/interpreter writers. .NET, [[articles:dlr-intro|DLR]], and now [[http://www.parrotcode.org/|Parrot]] seem to have adopted LOLCODE in part for teaching how to parse a new language. Cool.

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