Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by mtmail » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by adamnemecek » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:26 PM UTC

I'm not surprised that the language is dying. They seem to be spending time on things no one cares about and things that are inconsequential.

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by 83457 » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:28 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #2

I'm not surprised that the language is dying. They seem to be spending time on things no one cares about and things that are inconsequential.

Any examples?

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by roryrjb » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

Perl 6 is probably a great language, I'm not very interested in it, for the reasons someone might pick it, I'd probably pick a different language; of course not for any logical reasons, but still. Perl 5 on the other hand is still a great language for lots of reasons. I hope Perl 6 is renamed and Perl 5 will become Perl again and it will be reinvigorated and more people will consider it again. Don't get me wrong, I don't use Perl day to day because of the type of work I'm doing at $DAYJOB, but people like to dump on it for all the wrong reasons or outdated reasons, but I still believe in it, and I think a lot of people still do but there just isn't the mindshare and no matter what we think about our industry and how it works, that ultimately means new developers won't use it.

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by liveoneggs » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:31 PM UTC

83457 wrote: post #3

adamnemecek wrote: post #2

I'm not surprised that the language is dying. They seem to be spending time on things no one cares about and things that are inconsequential.

Any examples?

the name is the example

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by veidr » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:32 PM UTC

whorl

EDIT: no, I'm serious and that's a cool (enough) and available name with the right amount of historical correlation

EDIT 2: plus it already has an emoji icon on most platforms: https://emojipedia.org/fish-cake-with-swirl-design/

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by roryrjb » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:34 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #2

I'm not surprised that the language is dying. They seem to be spending time on things no one cares about and things that are inconsequential.

Could it be that the Perl language (and especially Perl 5) but as a community in general, is established and mature, and very stable, that the only things that are mentioned are just not the things that newer, fast moving languages such as Rust and Go talk about? I don't think that the naming situation is trivial, I really think it has had a negative effect on both Perl 5 and Perl 6.

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:35 PM UTC

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Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by lelf » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:37 PM UTC

> s/Perl/$other_language/g

I’m somehow not sure Perl6 has anything to do with that.

> because they're tired of waiting for Perl 6

But…for what exactly? It’s already stable enough for use.

Re: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?

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Post by mojuba » Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

I think an interesting question is, if the developers of Perl 6 knew from the beginning that they are essentially designing a new language with a new identity, would their new language be different and to what extent?