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Re^12: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6" (updated)by LanX (Saint) |
on Sep 02, 2019 at 19:57 UTC ( [id://11105469]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I'm a fan of clean names that avoid confusion. Perl++ would be an accurate description of the intent and draw a direct analog to C++. How a backwards compatible successor to Perl5 should be named ... no idea. Maybe leaping to 10 like Autocad did? But I agree that this must be accompanied with clear improvements like signatures (and/or an OO System). Anything else would be quickly ridiculed as marketing gag. > that Perl 6 hurt Perl 5 particularly or in the grand scheme. I claim Osborning, AFAIK Perl5 releases in the 200x years were rare because everybody was expecting Perl6 to arrive. That's a normal psychological effect. And when Perl6 was officially released I personally witnessed the aftermath of a very strange and loud discussion of my clients to switch as soon as possible to the "newer version".
Cheers Rolf
PS: FWIW: you may want to watch my talk about "The Camel Paradox" (not sure if slides and sound are out of sync or if I was in Muppet mode again ;-)
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