> 3. The insistence on branding sub-components of it and exposing that branding. Yes, it has a VM. Yes, it has a compiler. But why do people talk about ParrotVM and Rakudo as if they're different things? Java has a compiler and a VM, they're called "javac" and "jvm." This wifty "no, Perl 6 is the standard, the software you're running is Rakudo and Parrot" distinction is totally irrelevant to anyone actually wanting to write code, and weirdly confusing.

Pedantically, and this also helps serve your point, Parrot isn't used by any modern Perl 6 implementation, it's effectively dead (if not totally). MoarVM is the less ambitious (not trying to support every dynamic language like Parrot was) and more mature VM that is in use now.

And the requisite, ParrotVM is just pining for the fjords joke goes here. It has ceased to be, gone to meet it's maker, it is an Ex-Parrot.

EDIT: For reference, Parrot VM really was named because of that sketch. It started as an April Fools joke and kinda stuck. https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.c...