You might be thinking of ParrotVM. Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall had an April Fool's joke in which they announced they would combine Python and Perl into a single new language, "Parrot". In spirit with the joke, ParrotVM strives to be a good target many dynamic languages in general (such as Perl and Python) rather than any specific language.
I was curious what happened to Parrot; it seems dead at this point.
Not dead entirely to my knowledge, it still gets some commits, mostly by Rakudo devs to tweak it so Rakudo still works on it, and rurban who is putting time in to actually move it forward (but he's only one man, and I believe he's got a rather high count of VM's he's the main contributor to at this point, so I don't know how much attention he has to spare).
[W]hat happened to Parrot
Almost all of its developers quit around the same time: