Looking at possible candidates from a search-engine results and
alternative manings test. some possible choices:
Mu, (the root object class),
Camelia, (the spokesbug taking over),
Shesh, (the female form of 6 in Hebrew, but unfortunately also in the
Urban Dictionary - look it up for yourself).
Well, for what it's worth, as an outsider - IMHO, leaving "perl" behinds a
good thing. Love it or loath it, we live in a js/python/jvm leaning world.
Perl was great, but it's dated. Why have the baggage? Rakudo is a new
language. Treat it as such - best hope for it. In layman's terms an
informal "P
My personal favorite resolution is to officially name the language Rakudo, full
stop.
The implementation that was/is using the name would be renamed to something else
so it isn't the same as the language.
Then we say "Rakudo" is a sibling language of "Perl", full stop.
Then "Perl 6" becomes
* What's the counter word for computer languages, anyway?
-mai? As an abstraction from paper printouts?
From: Brent Laabs [mailto:bsla...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:51 PM
To: Aaron Sherman
Cc: yary ; Perl6
Subject: Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?
CAUTIO
Just Mu would be an amusing Perlish pun based on Muttsu... Making the
interpretation either Perl "six" or Perl "most undefined".
I like yary's idea too.
Frankly, if Perl had an identity, I would not care about the name. I feel
like it lacks that right now.
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Aaron Sherman, M.:
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Thanks for the summary of the high points, as there were a large number of
low points in previous discussions.
Roku is not the only reading for 六 in Japanese, the kun reading is muttsu.
So we could become Mupperl. What's the counter word for computer
languages, anyway?
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> ...
> IMHO, 6 has always been the personal name, but it could be changed to
> something that's "sixish" without being an explicit number. Normally, I'd
> recommend Latin, but Perl Sex is probably not where anyone wants to go...
>
Greek: ExiP
I think this is a fine place, personally. Past discussions have included
these high points as I recall them:
1. Perl is definitely the family name
2. Rakudo started out as the name of an implementation, but started to
wander into being the name of the specific leaf in the family tree
I recall coming across a post saying the Perl6 name is up for discussion -
searched & found this post now
https://6lang.party/post/The-Hot-New-Language-Named-Rakudo describes it. Is
there a forum where the name's being discussed that I can read?
Woke up this morning with a name proposal that seeme
