I think there is a ticket somewhere in some bug tracker on renaming Perl 6, but I can't find it at the moment.

It's here: "Perl" in the name "Perl 6" is confusing and irritating. Note the comment further down by TheDamian (GitHub user "thoughtstream") regarding the "Raku" name. And just today I ran across a post somewhere (I can't find it right now) arguing in favor of keeping the Perl 6 name. So I think basically it's still in discussion.

Of course, the language might just end up being named "Whatever" ;-)

Update: liz starts talking about it at this point in the talk.

Update 2: The discussion is also in this pull request.

Here's my fav reason to rename it, stolen from TheDamian:

It has a more subtle association with the Perl community’s signature camelids: “raku-da” is Japanese for “camel”.

-QM
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Again, because I can't comment in the discussion itself...

Also, Camelia, with the “C” and the “ML” in the name could confuse someone into thinking that’s its a language of the ML family like Ocaml.

Um... Isn't it? ;-)

I personally believe that all the concern (expressed by some of the folks in that discussion) about a rename taking the new language away from Perl-the-philosophy-ecosystem-community are completely unfounded, even vapid. Everyone knows that Oberon is a language in the Modula family. And when Oak was renamed to Java it sure didn't hurt anything. The new language needs its own name. Include "perl" in it somehow if absolutely necessary -- something stupid like "neoperl" or whatever.

Frankly, a language that only about fifty (and here I'm most likely being too nice) people care about may be called anything at all. It doesn't matter at all.

Jenda
1984 was supposed to be a warning,
not a manual!

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