Perl is dead

Simon Wilcox essuu at ourshack.com
Thu Dec 4 11:55:59 GMT 2008


Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Renaming Perl 6 to something completely different, and renaming perl
> 5.12 to perl 6.

Come on Paul, you're not thinking outside of the box enough on this. 
Given that half[1] the modules on CPAN now have cutesy names, shouldn't 
perl 5.12 now have a cutesy name too. I'll start:

Truck - big, solid, reliable, not glamorous but carries stuff for miles.

S.
[1] Proportion may have been exaggerated for effect. Objects in your 
mirrors are closer than they appear, etc etc :-)


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