While it is perhaps a positive sign to see that it's finally dawning on one of the leading "Perl6" advocates that the butterfly language is not actually Perl (as per the globally accepted meaning of that term), it's unfortunately not much help.

The problem is that this particular bandwagon-jumper, er ... advocate, came so much later to the "party" than the other bandwagon-jumpers, er ... advocates, who have been busily staking a claim in the hoped-for "Perl6" gold rush, writing books about a non-production ready language they are learning, running crowd-funding campaigns to underwrite the aforementioned, etc. Those folks all have too much invested in the wrong name, as the blogger acknowledged.

On the other hand his hubris is so enormous that he's apparently unilaterally changing the name in his own writings, and heaven knows that hubris has been the hallmark of the butterfly language so far, so he might just succeed in his quest. Too bad it's only half the job. Perhaps the '6' could be deprecated and phased out over a year or two. 'Rakudo Perl' and 'Perl 7'* -- I could get behind that.

* or 'Perl 28' or even just keep going with 'Perl 5.28 .. Perl 5.99' so long as the damn '6' were dropped)


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: A meditation on the naming of perl6 by 1nickt
in thread A meditation on the naming of perl6 by stevieb

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