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Re^13: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 16, 2018 at 11:59 UTC

    She knows that. Just as she knows that PerlRe is full of warnings like "WARNING: This extended regular expression feature is considered experimental, and may be changed without notice.", that will never go away.

    Lies and misdirection: the only remaining hope for Perl6! What a crying shame.


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    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. Suck that fhit

      I don't know what's sadder: the fact that the use of Perl 5 ithreads is being discouraged by p5p, or that you basically are no longer taking p5p seriously:

      PerlRe is full of warnings like "WARNING: This extended regular expression feature is considered experimental, and may be changed without notice.", that will never go away.

      With regards to:

      Lies and misdirection: the only remaining hope for Perl6!

      The fact that you are saying this seems to me to be in direct conflict with:

      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice

      Fortunately there's a lot more hope for Perl 5 and Perl 6 than that you are willing to acknowledge.