Camelia : Excellent idea Eliza, I totally agree with yours arguments and what a sympathetic non technical name accorded with its logo and attracting young programmers too. I vote for this choice with enthusiasm !
Chris Le lun. 12 août 2019 à 08:15, Eliza <e...@chinabuckets.com> a écrit : > Hello perl6 world, > > I saw the perl6 github issue, just was confused will perl6 change its name? > > Perl 6 was initially conceived to be the next version of Perl 5. It took > way too long to mature to an initial release. Meanwhile, people > interested in taking Perl 5 along, took back the reigns and continued > developing Perl 5. > > Having two programming languages that are sufficiently different to not > be source compatible, but only differ in what many perceive to be a > version number, is hurting the image of both Perl 5 and Perl 6 in the > world. Since the word "Perl" is still perceived as "Perl 5" in the > world, it only seems fair that "Perl 6" changes its name. > > Since Larry has indicated, in his video message to the participants of > PerlCon 2019 in Riga, that the two sister languages are now old and wise > enough to take care of themselves, such a name change would no longer > require the approval of the BDFL. > > I would therefore propose to change the name to "the Camelia Programming > Language" or "Camelia" for short, for several reasons: > > the search term "camelia programming language" already brings you to the > right place. This means that changing the name to "Camelia" will have > minimal impact on findability on search engines such as Google and > DuckDuckGo. > > the logo / mascot would not need changing: it's just that it now also > becomes the actual name of the programming language. > > "Camelia" in its name, still carries something Perlish inside of it. > > The concept of "Camelia" being an implementation of a specification in > "roast", still stands. The alternative, to use "Rakudo" as the name of > the language, would cause confusion with the name being used to indicate > an implementation, and would endanger the separation between > specification and implementation. > > Choosing yet another name, such as Albus, would mean having to start > from scratch with marketing and getting the name out there. Hence my > preference for a known name such as "Camelia". > > The "Camelia" logo is still copyright Larry Wall, so it would allow > Larry to still be connected to one of the programming languages that he > helped get into the world. > > https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81 > > regards, > Eliza >
