Mike Sanders

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• Commented on Names And All That
  No, it wasn't (isn't!) a waste of time. At least not, if - by following the discussion - the powers that be realize that adding always more "use feature 'xyz'" to the perl core while maintaining backwards compatibility isn't viable...
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  Btw.: /me actually thinks that "Raptor Perl" - cf. https://github.com/kraih/perl-raptor - could be nice: old but powerful (though "dangerous to use" could come to mind, too). There´s even orange in the image ;-)...
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  Saw a comment somewhere (unfortunately forgot where and by whom) that - I think - got it right: Changing the name or the version numbering scheme won't do us any good, unless we're willing to go further. It might in...

Comment Threads

• Graham Knop commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  What currently exists as Perl 5 needs an identity. A real identity that people can both understand and promote. "A member of the Perl family" is not an identity.

  Changing the name is not just about changing our comparison to Perl 6. It is about signaling to people both outside and inside the echo chamber that we are willing to move forward. That we want to move forward.

  pumpkin presents the best option I've seen for an answer to that. It doesn't solve every problem, but it solves enough. It gives us the room to grow into whatever we want to be.

• Robert commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  Someone looking for a new language is going to try "Pumpkin Perl"? I doubt it.

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  Mike, I was the one who originally popularised 'perl5 is a velociraptor' - my YAPC::* closing keynotes summarising the state of the perl5 community are known as 'State of the Velociraptor'.

  However, I think the raptor meme belongs to the perl5+CPAN platform rather than to perl5 the language itself, so I chose not to try and force it onto the language.