Re: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?


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by Anonymous Monk

on Aug 23, 2018 at 16:42 UTC ( [id://1220937]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Pearl (Practical Extraction And Report Language) was the original name of Perl. Maybe Perl6 should be named: Pearl

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Re^2: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer? by Jenda (Abbot) on Aug 23, 2018 at 18:09 UTC
Perl is Perl and not Pearl in part because there was a language named Pearl even when Larry wrote the first version. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]
Re^3: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 23, 2018 at 19:17 UTC
I tried to find a link and when that failed assumed the PEARL language did not pan out. Oh well... Cool name: "Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language" but the code in that PDF is mind-numbing. Thank you.	[reply]

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