Might as well follow Apple and Microsoft and call it Perl Ten. Yes,
spelled out.
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/18, Darren Duncan wrote:
>
> > I think if we want to keep "Perl" in the name we should use "C" as a
> precedent.
> > Other related
On 2/10/18, Darren Duncan wrote:
> I think if we want to keep "Perl" in the name we should use "C" as a
> precedent.
> Other related languages keeping "C" include "Objective C", "C#", "C++",
> >
Perl++ would work.
Ok. So here is something revolutionary.
Free up "Perl 6" for a future generation of Perl 5 and remove the ceiling
on the perl 5 language. Perl 6 has become more than a major iteration,
hasn't it?
Perl on parrot
Perl on jam
Perl on mono
Lots of space for a five from six once you vacate the lot.
On 2018-02-09 12:55 PM, Eaglestone, Robert J wrote:
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 h
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 matc
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 B
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 pu
