On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote:
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...
You could have a camel with 6 pans hanging off of him as an icon. :)
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