in reply to Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur

Nick, I think you should open this as an official poll... How do I create a Poll? with no bullshit, joke-type answers... straight up yes or no: Should PM allow Perl6 questions/discussions.
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Re^2: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 11, 2016 at 01:13 UTC
    > open this as an official poll

    With which consequence?

    In the end it's the decision of the crowd who keeps PM up and running.

    My contribution here was minor yet, but personally I would stop if 6 (or other technologies) got banned!°

    The admins here are neither elected nor payed by a democratic po(ll)pulace, they do it for fun.

    Careful when damaging the foundations of that building.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
    Je suis Charlie!

    update

    °) if I was into "there is only one way to do it" I would already be singing in the python choir.

Re^2: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur
by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 11, 2016 at 01:33 UTC

    Thank you for the suggestion, stevieb, but I'm not sure a poll would be any more useful than this thread, or any more useful than a poll about whether @lwall should change the name of "Perl 6" to something else. In neither case are we dealing with a democracy, and in this case, the gods know what has been said.

    Personally, I think that this thread has unsurprisingly strayed, as would a poll, from the strict question of whether "Perl 6" should be housed elsewhere than this monastery, and reflects people's broader feelings about it, or its name at least. Anyway, however one wants to interpret the discussion, I will share, fwiw, that my OP has received the following votes as of this time:

    upvotes: 25 downvotes: 21
    Pretty even, and when you take into account the many monks who have viewed the thread and abstained from voting, pretty inconclusive :-|

    The way forward always starts with a minimal test.