The cool part about old 90s Perl5 was ... it was doing its own thing. The best part about everyone hating you ... gives you the freedom to do precisely that. I

The cool part about old 90s Perl5 was ... it was doing its own thing. The best part about everyone hating you ... gives you the freedom to do precisely that. I don't like the proposed names because they seem to imply a new language. You need Perl in the goddamn name. I honestly think the biggest mistake that Perl5 made was going the OOP garbage way, which complicated the language as it was implemented as a hack. And everyone just said ... look Perl, ha ha ... can't do OOP! OOP in all its forms is a mistake. Small talk OOP, CLOS, Java OOP .... sheesh it's just a hash with sub refs. C gives you function pointers and structs. OOP should have been limited to just fucking that. Encapsulation is a mistake. Inheritance is a mistake. Polymorphism is useless in a dynamic language.