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They are stuck with the community and the culture they have, I think. A different name would not change the nature of what it is.
by natch 9y ago
They are stuck with the community and the culture they have, I think. A different name would not change the nature of what it is.
- dsnuh 9y agoTrue, but even if they had just called it Parrot or Lerp or Rakudo or really anything but Perl 6, I feel like they could have attracted the kind of new userbase to augment an already thriving community. I didn't follow along with all 594 years of development, it seemed to me like Larry just went nuts with adding every CS novelty. It didn't feel like a language for mere mortals to me anymore.