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Postings from May 2001
Edward Peschko writes: : also - why does it have to be tied to perl (in name) at all? Er, because we're writing it? : I like the idea : that it would *not* be tied to perl, ie: it would be more generic if it was : not named after it. Well, the fact that Tcl and Tk both start with T didn't stop people from abstracting it away. I think that has little to do with the name, but with how generally useful the platform is. : How about 'prism' (ie: multiple languages from one underlying platform)? Do a search for "prism" on Yahoo and then come back with a serious suggestion. There's even a "Prism programming language" out there. (And yes, I did do a search for "perk" before I suggested it.) New-age-techie words like "prism" are an attractive nuisance, and should be avoided if we want people to find our stuff. Larry