Le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 à 16:32, A. Pagaltzis écrivait: > * Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-28 16:05]: > > I thought I heard (or more probably read somewhere) that the > > name was 6PAN? > > That makes no sense. What is a ???6 Perl Archive Network???? Okay, > visually, it roughly resembles ???CPAN,??? but I don???t see that as a > good reason to pick a nonsensical initialism???
If found a reference to the name 6PAN here (that was in 2002): http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-stdlib@perl.org/msg00135.html Anyway, isn't "nonsensical" a prerequisite in the Perl world? Many Perl names started as jokes : Parrot, ponie, CPANTS... -- Philippe "BooK" Bruhat The only certain bet in gambling is that it leads to more gambling (Moral from Groo #11 (Image))
