Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-16 Thread vijayvithal jahagirdar
Marketing is not only about branding. It is also about finding Evangelists. Perl's traditional base was in - Web Development, - Text Processing, - Bio-Informatics and - As a general glue language among the sys admin and EDA community. How many of these sectors are moving away or have

Re: A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Nigel Hamilton
> Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: >> >> http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html >> > > I like your proposal. > > :-) > But its details would need fleshing out more, particularly at the end, > where it says this: > > Perl $new_runtime_name_for_perl5_goes_here (tm) > Perl $n

Re: A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2018-02-16 11:15 AM, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html I like your proposal. But its details would need fleshing out more, particularly at the end, where it says this: Perl $new_runtime_name_for_perl5_goe

Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-16 Thread Darren Duncan
If we assume the use of NQP is part of the project's identity, then yes that makes sense. Historically that wasn't the case, eg the earlier Rakudo were written to Parrot PIR directly, and there's the possibility this could change again, though I see that as unlikely. Not a bad idea. -- Darren

A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html

Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-16 Thread Lloyd Fournier
I'm about to publish some blog posts with using Perl 6 to demonstrate some cryptographic primitives. I was thinking about calling it "rakudo" to at least intrigue people and make them google it. Couldn't we call the language rakudo and the implementation nqp-rakudo? (ie a rakudo implementation in