FW: Perl6 -- what is in a name?

[I'm an idiot.  I forgot to send this to the group, too.]

Aaron Sherman:
# I'm going to just say this, and I ask that everyone who reads
# it take a
# deep breath, count to 10 and then respond if you wish.
#
# I was reading Apoc 4 and while marveling at the elegence of
# what Larry's
# doing to the language, I had an epiphany. Perl6 is simply not
# Perl. It's
# about as much Perl as Perl1 was AWK, C and Bourne Shell. I'm
# not saying
# that there's anything wrong with Perl6, or that it's on the
# wrong track.
# I love it, and want to start using it tomorrow. However, it
# is clearly a
# new species, and just as we do not call "Homo Sapiens Sapiens", "Homo
# Erectus 3", I am beginning to come around to the opinion that
# Perl6 is a
# poor choice of name for this new language.

I'd like you to perform an exercise for me if you have a Camel III.

The first thing is to open it to Chapter 4, which starts on page 111.
Now, read through Apocalypse 4, highlighting everything that's changed.
Not things that have been added--just things that have changed.

I think you'll find that Perl 6 isn't as dissimilar to Perl 5 as you may
think.

--Brent Dax
brentdax@cpan.org
Parrot Configure pumpking and regex hacker
Check out the Parrot FAQ: http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html (no,
it's not mine)

<obra> mmmm. hawt sysadmin chx0rs
<lathos> This is sad. I know of *a* hawt sysamin chx0r.
<obra> I know more than a few.
<lathos> obra: There are two? Are you sure it's not the same one?

• FW: Perl6 -- what is in a name? by Brent Dax