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From:
Erez Schatz
Date:
August 12, 2019 06:42
Subject:
Re: perl6's new name?
Message ID:
dd633b2e-d09b-cbea-a783-876dea5832c9@gmail.com
It's all bike-shedding.
On 8/12/19 9:14 AM, Eliza wrote:
> Hello perl6 world,
>
> I saw the perl6 github issue, just was confused will perl6 change its
> name?
>
> Perl 6 was initially conceived to be the next version of Perl 5. It
> took way too long to mature to an initial release. Meanwhile, people
> interested in taking Perl 5 along, took back the reigns and continued
> developing Perl 5.
>
> Having two programming languages that are sufficiently different to
> not be source compatible, but only differ in what many perceive to be
> a version number, is hurting the image of both Perl 5 and Perl 6 in
> the world. Since the word "Perl" is still perceived as "Perl 5" in the
> world, it only seems fair that "Perl 6" changes its name.
>
> Since Larry has indicated, in his video message to the participants of
> PerlCon 2019 in Riga, that the two sister languages are now old and
> wise enough to take care of themselves, such a name change would no
> longer require the approval of the BDFL.
>
> I would therefore propose to change the name to "the Camelia
> Programming Language" or "Camelia" for short, for several reasons:
>
> the search term "camelia programming language" already brings you to
> the right place. This means that changing the name to "Camelia" will
> have minimal impact on findability on search engines such as Google
> and DuckDuckGo.
>
> the logo / mascot would not need changing: it's just that it now also
> becomes the actual name of the programming language.
>
> "Camelia" in its name, still carries something Perlish inside of it.
>
> The concept of "Camelia" being an implementation of a specification in
> "roast", still stands. The alternative, to use "Rakudo" as the name of
> the language, would cause confusion with the name being used to
> indicate an implementation, and would endanger the separation between
> specification and implementation.
>
> Choosing yet another name, such as Albus, would mean having to start
> from scratch with marketing and getting the name out there. Hence my
> preference for a known name such as "Camelia".
>
> The "Camelia" logo is still copyright Larry Wall, so it would allow
> Larry to still be connected to one of the programming languages that
> he helped get into the world.
>
> https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81
>
> regards,
> Eliza
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