Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Referring to Patrick's blog about an official 'useable' version of Rakudo, a suggestion: Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is intended to be a cut-down version of perl6.0.0 that is useable, how about Rakudo-lite? Its just that */star/whatever doesnt convey [to me] the fact that

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:30:07PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Referring to Patrick's blog about an official 'useable' version of > Rakudo, a suggestion: > > Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is intended to be a > cut-down version of perl6.0.0 that is useable, how about Ra

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
Rakudo Light Rakudo Star Light Rakudo Rock Star Rakudo Hard Rock Rakudo Play Hard Rakudo Play Just musing...

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Austin Hastings
How about "Rake"? =Austin Richard Hainsworth wrote: Referring to Patrick's blog about an official 'useable' version of Rakudo, a suggestion: Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is intended to be a cut-down version of perl6.0.0 that is useable, how about Rakudo-lite? Its just

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Henry Baragar
Ruby anyone? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_(software). Henry On August 9, 2009 11:44:24 am Austin Hastings wrote: > How about "Rake"? > > =Austin > > Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > Referring to Patrick's blog about an official 'useable' version of > > Rakudo, a suggestion: > > > > Since R

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:19:44AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:30:07PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > Referring to Patrick's blog about an official 'useable' version of > > Rakudo, a suggestion: > > > > Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is in

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:57:16PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is intended to be a > > > cut-down version of perl6.0.0 that is useable, how about Rakudo-lite? > > > > Hmmm, that's a very reasonable name. Over the past few days I've > > become a

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread David Green
On 2009-Aug-9, at 6:30 am, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Its just that */star/whatever doesnt convey [to me] the fact that its a sub-set of of Perl6. I like "*"... it has more personality than "lite". (Or even "light".) Though since it's a subset, we could always call it "Rakudo ⊂"! On 2009-

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:35:42PM -0600, David Green wrote: > On 2009-Aug-9, at 3:57 pm, Tim Bunce wrote: >> Perhaps it's worth asking what we might call the release after that >> one. >> "Rakudo not-quite-so-lite"? > > Rakudo ** (aka "Rakudo Exponentiation")? Though I think Patrick is > opti