Clutching at its Perl 6, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

Earlier this month, Elizabeth Mattijsen, a Dutch software developer and contributor to the open-source Perl programming language, opened an issue in the GitHub Perl 6 repository seeking to rename the project because having "Perl" in the name is "confusing and irritating." To understand why that's so, it's necessary to know a …

[jake]

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Oh look! How cute ... it looks like somebody doesn't like us having an amicable conversation. Shall we offer to share the beer with it, or merely point and giggle?

[MonsieurTM]

Long live Perl! Long live the IOCCC! Long live N-Intercal!

For the record it is, of course tabs, not spaces!

[Uplink]

Choose your appeal and thus success

Camelia is a nice, pleasant name, and it can draw people in via the sexual-emotional route.

Raku can bury the language.

Technical merits? They don't matter that much. Would you rather tell people that you do Camelia or Raku? Sounds to me like I'd rather admin to writing Perl than Raku.