Re: Perl, the new generation

[Larry Wall]

Nathan Wiger writes:
: Maybe the name "Perl" should be dropped altogether?

No.  The Schemers had to do a name change because the Lisp name had
pretty much already been ruined by divergence.

: (Granted, that's not what I'd prefer, but the changes are getting 
:  rather massive and are starting to really permute the proposed 
:  language)

If you talk that way, people are going to start believing it.  The
typical Perl 6 program is not going to look very different from the
typical Perl 5 program.  The danger of us continually talking about
the things we want to change is that people will forget to notice the
tremendous amount of stuff that we aren't changing.

Larry