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Obviously not, its a truisim

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Re^2: Can a new name or version number change the way Perl is perceived?
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 15, 2013 at 17:47 UTC

    Ok, I've read it now, #!/usr/bin/pumpkin could work if done shiny enough, like all rebrandings

    Althought, none have mentioned perl52 or #!/usr/bin/perl25

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      #!/usr/bin/pumpkin could work if done shiny enough, like all rebrandings

      And by competent marketing manager, not programmers

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        "competent marketing manager"

        It might work in those circumstances, assuming there's ALSO sufficient advancement from the the last-previous 5.0nn to minimize/discredit reactions such as "same old, same old; just new marketing!"


        If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!

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