Re^2: Last best chance to rename "Perl6" ?

So, as you probably know, Larry Wall announced the alias 'Raku' for Perl 6.

Sorry for waking up an old thread, but I can't find another place it gets mentioned here on PM. So from the #perl6 IRC Logs:

2018-10-25 18:26
<TimToady> Zoffix: just a heads up wrt the alias, which I'm thinking of as "It's the stage name (but Perl 6 still cashes the checks)"; at the moment I'm liking Raku the best for a short name (it's 4 letters like Enya or Pink or Gaga), with long names of either Raku-go or Go-raku (where "go" is Japanese 語 for "language") because I'm not terribly fond of the "-lang" neologism
<TimToady> Ofun is a close second, but unfortunately "fun" is Japanese for excrement :)
<TimToady> also Raku pottery is "imperfect but sophisticated", so that's a fit :)
<TimToady> most of the existing uses of "raku" in trademarks appears to be for medical supplies or food processing
<TimToady> and there doesn't seem to be an existing "raku" command, at least that Linux Mint knows about
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(And BTW, <update> although I admit I don't mind the "Raku" name, </update> I'm not endorsing anything here or stating an opinion, just saving this for the public record :-) )

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Re^3: Last best chance to rename "Perl6" ? by stevieb (Canon) on Aug 12, 2019 at 21:20 UTC
How about `frtn`? That represents the number of years since announce to the first release becoming available. That said, perhaps the Fortran folk might get a bit pissed :) Meh, just making fun of a convoluted situation. Personally, I have no investment either way. I've dabbled with perl6 here and there a bit, but not to the point I've created anything of value with it. In other words, I don't mind observing questions on the topic, but at this time, I'm too busy to delve any further into it. I did notice when I have played with it that the start up time was abysmal (relative to perl5). I write a lot of software that is very long running, which makes startup time irrelevant. However, most Perl users/writers I know are wanting/writing scripts that don't loop forever and simply perform a few tasks which demand quick start up time. Has the VM layer startup time been improved?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Last best chance to rename "Perl6" ? by haukex (Archbishop) on Aug 13, 2019 at 19:05 UTC
Has the VM layer startup time been improved? You might be interested in Jonathan Worthington's talk Perl 6 performance update here: https://youtu.be/S5iVBlk7pdg?t=16773. They're doing some really impressive work on optimizations, although sadly not on startup time - yet `:-)`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Last best chance to rename "Perl6" ? by daxim (Curate) on Aug 14, 2019 at 09:19 UTC
start up time was abysmal Does it really meaningfully impact one's productivity when it's 340ms (cold)/150ms (warm) instead of 30ms (cold)/10ms (warm)? (About the same as three years ago.) Mind you, the comparison becomes more fair once you also load Moose, Perl6::Junctions and many more that you get for free. `› time echo -n \| perl6 real 0m0,339s user 0m0,222s sys 0m0,058s › time echo -n \| perl6 real 0m0,124s user 0m0,151s sys 0m0,027s › time echo -n \| perl6 real 0m0,122s user 0m0,142s sys 0m0,034s › time echo -n \| perl6 real 0m0,123s user 0m0,140s sys 0m0,038s › time echo -n \| perl6 real 0m0,124s user 0m0,147s sys 0m0,031s › time echo -n \| perl6 real 0m0,123s user 0m0,140s sys 0m0,035s` [download]	[reply] [d/l]