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2009/11/1 Jonathan Leto <jaleto@gmail.com>: > Just to clear things up: No programming language implementation will > ever call itself "Perl 6", since Perl 6 is a language spec that is > implemented and then given a different, unique, beautiful name. For > example, Larry's implementation of Perl 6 is called STD.pm (funny as > it sounds), so he eats the same dog food as everyone else. > > If p5p wants, you guys can have the 6.x versions and higher. Perl 6 is > a spec, not the version number of an implementation. That would be confusing to no end. Casual perl users are already confused by the Perl 6 name, since 6 is very much perceived as a version number -- and that's understandable. Imagine what would happen if the language spec python and the reference implementation python (or alternative implementations like jython) used the same version number for different, incompatible languages? What we can hope, though, is that the name "Perl 6" vanishes once a reference implementation is released, and that the name of this reference implementation becomes the name of the language, by metonymy.Thread Previous | Thread Next