I doubt the name is "up for discussion" just because there's a blog
post about it. The name ain't changing ever, or at least that's how I
understand things. But, please, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Sure, you can have as many alternative nicknames and aliases as you
want (for marketing pu
Thought the conversation felt like bikeshedding but... My point still
stands. This is a new language targetted at a post php world. The
significance of a version number will be lost outside the perl echo chamber
and in that context seen as baggage... IMHO... YMMV...
On 9 Feb 2018 6:15 pm, "Lucas B
I think a name change is too radical. And yet.
I think Steve has a point, though I don’t know what to do about it. The
developers in my little corner of the world may not be up on the
new-language-of-the-week, but even they see Perl as a has-been, write-only
language, so when their brain matc
On 2018-02-09 12:55 PM, Eaglestone, Robert J wrote:
I think a name change is too radical. /And yet/.
I think Steve has a point, though I don’t know what to do about it. The
developers in my little corner of the world may not be up on the
new-language-of-the-week, but even they see Perl as a h
Ok. So here is something revolutionary.
Free up "Perl 6" for a future generation of Perl 5 and remove the ceiling
on the perl 5 language. Perl 6 has become more than a major iteration,
hasn't it?
Perl on parrot
Perl on jam
Perl on mono
Lots of space for a five from six once you vacate the lot.
On 2/10/18, Darren Duncan wrote:
> I think if we want to keep "Perl" in the name we should use "C" as a
> precedent.
> Other related languages keeping "C" include "Objective C", "C#", "C++",
> >
Perl++ would work.
Might as well follow Apple and Microsoft and call it Perl Ten. Yes,
spelled out.
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/18, Darren Duncan wrote:
>
> > I think if we want to keep "Perl" in the name we should use "C" as a
> precedent.
> > Other related
