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
