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 matches /perl/i they automatically toss it in the bit bucket. Some of them are too nice to say it outright. Some aren’t.
Six. From: Steve Pitchford [mailto:steve.pitchf...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 2:08 PM To: Lucas Buchala <lucasbuch...@gmail.com> Cc: Perl6 <perl6-language@perl.org> Subject: Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of CA. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 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 Buchala" <lucasbuch...@gmail.com<mailto:lucasbuch...@gmail.com>> wrote: 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 purposes?), but the official name won't change. So, move on, folks.
