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in thread It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?

I cannot respond in any meaningful way to this, as I don't know what 'Slack' is?

And having re-read your post several times, I'm still unsure whether it is in support or contrary to my post?


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Re^7: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 15, 2018 at 21:54 UTC

    Slack's a proprietary chat system a lot like IRC but with a graphical interface that's made it more popular with less technical folks as well as people who didn't grow up with IRC.

    I'm generally agreeing with you here.