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Well right, "perl 6" quickly became a bad name for the project - they should have switched to something like "raku" maybe 20 years ago. Given that, nobody got
by kristopolous 3y ago
Well right, "perl 6" quickly became a bad name for the project - they should have switched to something like "raku" maybe 20 years ago.
Given that, nobody got the memo, so calling it "perl 6" is still a very fast way to orient people as to what it's a neighbor of.
- cduzz 3y agoIt's what happens when Larry Wall says "Hold My Beer" to ruby?
- 2colours 3y agoMaybe a fast way but is it a fair or even helpful way, if you recognize that it "quickly became a bad name for the project"?
- topaz0 3y agoIt is helpful for people who were paying attention to the perl community with any passing interest at any time in the past 20 years. It is not helpful for people who weren't. But the former describes a lot of people here.
- kristopolous 3y agoAbsolutely! In the same way that saying the "Dugong Dugon" is a type of fish even though it's technically a Sirenia. Here, "some swimming creature" is the totality of the objective, we aren't trying to do a crash course in marine zoology or trying to explain what a Sirenia is or what a fish technically means. Saying it's perl-6 means that it's not say, lisp-like or some kind of prolog or haskell. It's a relatively swift approximation and that's the totality of the objective.