(Humor) A New Name for Perl 6

[VSarkiss]

Looking through Apocalypse 6, especially before the Exegesis has come out, I get an excited-yet-queasy feeling that I think many others share. A lot of the complaints (mostly in other places) are really centered around "but it doesn't look like Perl". I recently realized that when people say that, they really mean "but it doesn't look like Perl 5."

Clearly, we need a new name for this language that will help people to disassociate it from the old language. After all, if it's called Perl 6, it must be just one step away from Perl 5, right? But it's not, it's on a whole different plane, and we need a name for it that makes that clear. Obviously, we can't call it "COBOL 2003" or "Espresso Con Panna" because people will be seriously confused. We need a name that evokes not only where the language is, but also where it has come from.

Here's your chance for notoriety fame and fortune! Come up with a new name for this wonderful language, and give a brief rationale of your suggestion in a reply below. I'll disqualify myself, but here are a few to get you started:

++Perl

Like Perl++, but it's incremented before you use it.

ECMAPerl

I mean, "JavaPerl" is just too awful to contemplate.

Perl Advanced 2003 XP

Which conveniently abbreviates to PA2K3XP. A language with an obfuscated name, even.

For extra credit, design a new logo also: a Camel on steroids, or one with its quanta superposed, or ...?

[chromatic]

Just about every discussion of real programming I've ever read on Slashdot reminds me of my favorite quote from the least-informed Perl book I've ever read. It went something like:

If you try to assign an array to a scalar, you'll get the number of elements in the array. Hopefully this bug will be fixed in a future version. In the meantime, do $len = $#ary + 1; because it's less confusing.

Update: I forgot to cast my vote. Why not Gloria? (I seem to recall Larry suggesting it fairly recently.)

[demerphq]

lol. Do you by any chance recall the books name?


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demerphq

[chromatic]

I do, but out of a misguided, surprising, and completely out of character sense of professional responsibility, will refrain from sharing. :) It wasn't written by anyone I know, anyway.

[zengargoyle]

• Polly - for the TMTOWTDI and to go with Parrot.
• GEaH - Green Eggs and Ham. Looks icky, try it and you'll like it.
• P - just plain practical.

[crazyinsomniac]

*burp*
• satin -- so smoooth ;)
• silk -- so smoooth ;)
• slick -- so slick ;)
• ssp -- super smoooth perl
• sapl -- super all purpose language
• sap -- super a'ight perl
• sapp -- super all purpose perl
• nbl -- not by larry
• dbp -- designed by the people
• pard -- parrot droppings
• oyp -- obviously your perl (designed by the community)
• pbc -- perl by the community
• pbytpf -- perl by the perl folk
• pfp -- pretty fast perl
• php -- pretty horny perl
• pwh -- perl with horns
• sixp -- sick
• perlish -- kinda like perl

 


______crazyinsomniac_____________________________ Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

[davis]

In the same spirit:

• phat -- Perl has advanced terrifically

davis
Is this going out live?
No, Homer, very few cartoons are broadcast live - it's a terrible strain on the animator's wrist

[Mr. Muskrat]

º

Look everybody!!! It's the language that was formerly known as Perl 5!
* the crowd goes wild.

[theorbtwo]

dimond: like perl, but so much more impressive.

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[VSarkiss]

Hm, chip is/was leading a project named Topaz, that was going to be a re-implementation of Perl 5 in C++. Doesn't look he's working on it actively, though: the latest download version is dated April 2000.

[Popcorn Dave]

How about P6 before Intel grabs the name? Or have they already?

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.

[davis]

How about P6 before Intel grabs the name? Or have they already?

Yes, they have. It was used to talk about the Pentium Pro CPU, and the Pentium Classic was the P5. IIRC, that scheme of numbering kind of disappeared after that.


davis
Is this going out live?
No, Homer, very few cartoons are broadcast live - it's a terrible strain on the animator's wrist

[Acolyte]

Oyster - It contains previous versions of Perl and so much more...

Update: Possible acronym - "Oh Yeah, Still Tractably Extracts Reports".

Any other good acronyms out there that might fit?

Acolyte
Studying at the feet of the masters

[Abigail-II]

PNP, which stands for PNP is not Perl.

Abigail

[Anonymous Monk]

Please say you're joking. Calling GNU GNU set free software back 20 years.

Marketing, people. It counts.

[apotheon]

I refuse to refer to Perl 6 by the same abbreviation used to reference Microsoft plug and pray technology.

[BrowserUk]

Perl VI

:The Saga Continues

• Current state
  • Virtual Incarnation
  • Very Interesting
• Design goals
  • Verbosity Inessential
  • Versatility Incorporated
  • Vanquished Irregularity
• (hopefully) Final outcome
  • Vastly Improved.
  • Versatile, Indulgent.
  • Voraciously inclusive.

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Examine what is said, not who speaks.
1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke.

[Mago]

Perl VI - The Future

The language that integrates human and computer !

Mago
[e-mail]

[nite_man]

I would like to offer my variant of new Perl name:

XPerl

which is abridgment from eXpand Perl.

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[apotheon]

In that case, we should call it EPerl, for Expanded Perl. I'm just a stickler for proper abbreviation and spelling, I suppose -- and quite thoroughly over all this annoying "X makes it sell better!" nonsense.

Of course, we could make it "hip" by calling it ePerl, I suppose. While I'm at it, we could offer it in fruity color schemes and call it iPerl. On the other hand, Apple probably already has that name registered as a trademark.

[dimar]

Unfortunately, the "X-factor" is a relatively well-known and verified marketing gimmick. The "eFactor" is probably passe as a relic of the dotBomb era. The "iFactor" has some merit, but runs afoul of both Apple and variable naming conventions for integer types.

How about: "The language formerly known as {unpronouncable symbol}" ... carries a certain mystique, and stylishly reduces to simply "The Language."

[mowgli]

How about Purrl? :)

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mowgli

[crenz]

How about PERL. A lot of people seem to be talking about it these days.

[jacques]

PHava #

It's buzzword compliant and sounds Hawaiian, a good match for Parrot.

[mojotoad]

I had my servlets with some PHava beans and a nice chianti...<sfft> <sffft> <sfffft>...

Can you hear the lambs, Clarice?

Matt

[jcoxen]

If we're gonna have Parrot, why not call it Head. Of course, then we'd have to start referring to a buffer as a Buffet.

[boo_radley]

I've been stumping for "parl", but nobody's buying it.

[PodMaster]

That's because it's taken by PAR.

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

[nite_man]

How about Perl GTi like a marking of 'charged' version of sport cars :-)

--->
SV* sv_bless(SV* sv, HV* stash);

[FoxtrotUniform]

How about Perl GTi like a marking of 'charged' version of sport cars :-)

How about Perl type R? Everyone knows that adding a "type R" badge to something makes it faster, sexier, and just plain l33ter.

[apotheon]

Perl LX: the luxury model

for extra power and fuel efficiency . . . Perl D: the diesel-powered Perl

[thelenm]

How about Visual P++?

-- Mike

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just,my${.02}

[JayBonci]

Whereas I read somewhere something to the tune of "perl is the only language that can parse perl", I propose:

perl: Perl-enhanced report language

Which I think sums up the changes nicely.

    --jaybonci

[jryan]

That's Perl5. Perl6 will be able to parse itself easily.

[apotheon]

In that spirit:
pirl: particularly inimitable rubbish lister
pers: pathologically eclectic rubbish sorter
purl: practical useful report language
erl: enhanced rubbish lister

[Ctrl-z]

Peril
one for the extreme programmers!. Actually, this is how the original sounds with my accent.

PEE
ala J2EE, but with connotations of the UKism for urinating ;)

time for more coffee methinks...


time was, I could move my arms like a bird and...

[NetWallah]

I'm surprised nobody has proposed Perl# yet.

I know most of you hate Bill G, but C# is a pretty nice language that has borrowed a lot from Delphi, and , yes, perl. In fact most of Dot net resembels perl modules!.

[jdporter]

> Peril

It was on the basis of this that I was going to call my "better Perl" Dangr. Yes, I know it would not have caught on. ;-)

[webfiend]

ESCARGOT

Everybody Stop Complaining Already - Really, Go Over There

Best I could come up with at the moment...

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I just realized that I was using the same sig for nearly three years.

[stefp]

To keep up with Pea?rl and other Ruby...

Opal: Object Perl, Another Language.

It would make clear that Opal it is a PONG (Perl Objectifed New Generation).

The logo would be pal within a big O making cleary that Opal is friendly: Opal is Our pal.

Well, there is already an Opal language and an Opal operating system. But who cares, a camel can be bullish. :)

-- stefp

[apotheon]

If it wasn't for the fact that Opal is already taken, I'd be all over this one. I like it a lot, both because of the thematic progression from "pe(a)rl" to "opal" and the "object perl" reference, which is one I've been thinking might be a good name for it.

[jdporter]

How about "Ocaml"? The best part is, it's already finished. ;-)

[particle]

how about 'pony' -- now everybody will have one!

~Particle *accelerates*

[gmpassos]

How about Perl6?! Before Perl5, we had Perl4. Who really know Perl, know that from 4 to 5 we have a "new" language. We are just following what was done before.

Note that Perl6 will be done after test a lot of ideas and theories that was used in the last 10 years! Today we know what the best choices to do.

Other thing, since Perl6 will run over Parrot, and to do that we need to convert our Perl6 code to Parrot assembly. Why not make a converter from Perl5 to Parrot assembly too?

And we are free to make an hybrid of Perl5 and Perl6 too! Perl5X (X from ex, ex from hexagon).

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

[TimToady]

Nah, if it's something less than Perl, it'd have to be decremented as a string, which leaves us with Perk, with vague connotations of Java-like restrictions.

On the other hand, if you increment Perl, you get things like Perm, Pern, Pero, Perp, Perq, Perr, Pers, Pert, Peru, Perv, Perw, Perx, Pery, Perz, many of which have interesting associations...

[Solo]

I nominate Paco!

(Perl with Attributes, Coroutines and Objects, if you must)

[Anonymous Monk]

OPP

As in Other People's Perl. Then we monks could chant:

"Ya down with O-P-P?"
"Yeah, you know me!!"

(Thank goodness for AM.)

[Anonymous Monk]

As in Other People's Perl. Then we monks could chant: "Ya down with O-P-P?" "Yeah, you know me!!"

Yes. Then we could all get hit by a bus and prove Darwin right ;-)

[Anonymous Monk]

What about the obvisious!
POOP Perl Object Oriented Programming!

[diotalevi]

Hmm. "obvisious" reminds me of another word I rarely find need for but needed today - Lubricious.

(added the word "obvisious")

[Anonymous Monk]

I just had to look that up. Lubricious

[apotheon]

Or, more seriously, we could just call it Object Perl.

[ambrus]

• Scarlet
• Newperl
• !Perl
• Perl7 (there's such a large gap between it and perl5)

[ggg]

• YAP - Yet another Perl
Or similar,
• YAPerl - Yet another Perl

[Brother Otto]

Just thinking now.. - Daughter of Perl - Black Perl but perhaps best in this vein .. - Cultured Perl

[Anonymous Monk]

Head

So Perl programmers could be called "Parrotheads", in homage to Jimmy Buffet . . . Okay, this thread has gone on long enough, pass me another margarita.

[Aristotle]

Not sure I'd want a name that lends itself to so many sexual innuendoes…

Makeshifts last the longest.

[tphyahoo]

THUGS: Testing Haskell Under Great Stress.

[wolfger]

In time honored tradition, we should call in PINP. Perl6 Is Not Perl5.

[Aristotle]

How about Perl6 Is More Perl?

[fraktalisman]

A Netscapish new name could be Perl 7 (because it took time to build and will be so much better) ...

Nice to see so many other new names! I really liked The Language (formerly known as Perl) and Opal, although Opal reminds me of the German car brand Opel.

[Anonymous Monk]

Ruby!

[coreolyn]

LOL

Larry's Object Language

[fredopalus]

There's always Pearl: The 'Shiny' Perl.

[PodMaster]

Only one problem with that, it's already taken. Larry originally wanted perl to be pearl, but it was already taken (Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language).

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

[wolfger]

I can't believe no Perl 5 die-hard has suggested this yet, so here it goes:
Faux Perl

[gellyfish]

A picture tells a thousand .... http://www.ac-lumiere.com/Maud%20Perl/gif2mau.gif

/J\

[g0n]

Lerp? (Lead Replacement Perl).

[tphyahoo]

Grammar Rule Object Parser Engine?
Grammar Rule Object Event Parser?
Grammar Rule Iterative Machine?

[Juerd]

Let's call Perl 6 "Perl 6".

[Anonymous Monk]

That's almost as funny as your Christmas post! Your one wild a crazy guy Junerd!

[r34d0nl1]

I liked
YAPerlV - Yet Another Perl Version
JAVAPerl - Just Another Version of the Amabile Perl
P6NPerl - Perl 6 is not Perl

[TedPride]

Well, there's HTML and XHTML - why not Perl and XPerl? You need a name that associates it with older versions of Perl, yet at the same time clearly says that the new version is significantly different.

[merlyn]

The "X" in "XHTML" has a significance though. It means "based on XML rather than (almost) on SGML".

There'd be no equivalent for Perl vs XPerl. Plus, XPerl sounds like "the former Perl" when you pronounce it.

[Mago]

XPerl - eXtreme Perl !

Mago
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[Anonymous Monk]

What about POT Program Obfuscation Tool