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Would you suggest alternative names for Perl 6?

Why do you ask? Are you taking suggestions for the purpose of making an actionable decision?

The fact of the past decade of Perl6 development is that the name is immutably Perl6. The decision maker(s) have spoken. It's done.

After naming my kids, 3rd party suggestions ten years after the fact wouldn't make a bit of difference; their names are decided, and we've long since moved on.

So it is with Perl6; it's been named. That name was decided upon 10 years ago. Perl5 has enough version numbering namespace left to last it almost 40 more years before someone has to come up with another solution. I think we can safely move on with life. :)

(At one major release per year, and with major releases being given even numbers, and given that we're at 5.20 now, we have 39 releases remaining before 5.98 bumps into 6.0.)

By the way: I do see value in critical thinking; asking why, how, what if. It just happens that this one is a bit stale.


Dave

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Re^2: Would you suggest alternative names for Perl 6?
by Jenda (Abbot) on Dec 06, 2014 at 14:28 UTC

    I like the likening to the kids ... it's incorrect though. You decided about the name of the kids before they were born and I'm sure relatives had their say in the decision and voiced their opinions while your wife was pregnant and BEFORE the kids were finally delivered. The language misnamed and misadvertised as the next version of Perl has not been delivered yet despite more than a decade long pregnancy and so the relatives are still out bickering about the name.

    Besides ... did you call your kids John 1, John 2, John 3 and so forth? Perl6 (let's at least write with no space to give the fulltext any chance whatsoever to tell the two unrelated languages apart!) is not an update/extension to the existing language, it's a completely different, overdesigned, overcomplicated, overobfuscated language. It's the language that killed Perl.

    Jenda
    Enoch was right!
    Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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        Jenda
        Enoch was right!
        Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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