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• Commented on On the awesomeness of the Perl community
  Hooray, I hope you have a good time there!...
• Commented on App::Midgen what is it?
  A note on your line in italics.. I think you should list all the versions you last tested with (in each release). I often come across distributions with outdated dependencies because, I assume, later releases didn't update the dep versions....
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  You missed as a point "People don't know that the grants exist" and "People don't think their ideas/plans are appropriate for a grant". TPF should probably advertise them more. As Nicholas pointed out, the grants system is a bit arcane,...
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  Or more correctly: make PERLNAME=pumpkin install...
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  This sounds to me a lot like an actual name for the thing that Nicholas suggested (http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/198242). I like the idea of having several distributions, which are basically Perl + some set of modules or other. Pumpking Perl would be...
• Commented on How Perl Documentation Could Look Like
  I'd like to point out that pandoc is written in haskell, not python.. Unless you meant something else with that comment? I've also written a patch to make it output POD (well PseudoPod anyways).. I should go ask the pandoc...

Comment Threads

• vti commented on About the Grants Committee

  Maybe there should be a simple pre-applying form where people can vote just for ideas, like 'Should I ask for a grant for this...?' and get responses like 'Yeah, that'd be great' or 'Nah.. this is just silly'. This is much easier to check for your ideas and not be too much depressed because of the 'no'.

• metadoo commented on About the Grants Committee

  Whenever someone is to submit a grant proposal, that proposal goes through one's "internal review" first. And in that internal review one asks yourself: "Why should I ask to be paid for what countless of others just CONTRIBUTE to Perl community? The Perl itself and tens of thousands of modules are literally millions of hours, hundreds of years of work just contributed. Why should I ask for pay?". This is the perfectly right question to ask. And this makes the one's internal review quite picky, and the result is what we see - no proposals. And, though surprisingly it may sound, this is the…

• Will commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux

  Perl 5 should still be called "Perl". Instead, Perl 6 should get a new name. Let the newcomer sound like a silly pumpkin, not the established language.

  Renaming Perl 5 would cause confusion over the fact that all the existing Perl 5 code out there couldn't be called Perl code anymore, it would have to be called Pumpkin Perl code.

  Even though the existing Perl has not changed, we're required to call it something different? No, that's not how names are supposed to work. New names are for new things.

  Perl 6 is the new thing, *it* should get a new name.
  

• frettled.myopenid.com commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux

  I like the reasoning, I like the idea, and I like the name.

  Most people will probably still just say "perl".

  But what is the trademark status?

  (As for Perl 6, we've already got "Rakudo Perl" and other Perl 6 dialects, so there's no need to have "Rakudo Blackfriar Perl" or something as Will appears to suggest.)

  I'm glad that the name "Onion Perl" hasn't been suggested, since that might imply that there is Only One Perl. There isn't, and in the future, we might even have another sibling in the so far fairly small Perl family of languages.

• Neil Ostrove commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux

  It looks like most of the comments like the idea but dislike the name, mostly because its meaning isn't obvious. To give everyone a worse choice to rally against, thereby consolidating mst's choice, I hereby propose the name Acoustic Perl (analogous to acoustic guitar).