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• Commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things
  Zoffix, regarding Fortran et al: I’d say Perl is a bit unusual in having, from version 1-5, a sort of Highlander mentality. “There can be only one!” This happened despite the fact that its code is freely available. Various people...
• Commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things
  John Regarding “There’s been a number of decent solutions proposed over the years, (mst I think had the best compromise to rename Perl5 ‘Pumpkin Perl’) but none of them gained traction.” I thank the atom gods that this never happened....
• Commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things
  First things first. Food naming in actual restaurants has in my experience been as bad as what you describe and worse. The “chili dog” I was once served in a UK restaurant… there are no words. Horrible. If I were...
• Commented on Why in The World Would Anyone Use Perl 6?
  I truly believe that Perl usage would have declined anyway with or without the lengthy development period for version 6. The reasons have already been discussed at length on various forums. I'm saying this as someone who was concerned about...
• Commented on Why in The World Would Anyone Use Perl 6?
  I wrote a blog post today which also lightly discusses the name and logo grumbling. Maybe you will like it: http://virtualsue.blogspot.co.uk/...
• Posted How to add JSONP support to a web service to sue spence

  I needed to do this yesterday, so that a developer could work on a project on his own machine while accessing some REST services I developed on an intranet server. Cross-domain requests are prohibited by the same origin policy security that govern client-side Javascript programs. JSONP gets…

Comment Threads

• Zoffix Znet commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  Because unlike some other languages, both Perl 5 and Perl 6 intend to exist side-by-side, both being actively developed, if in different directions.

• Steve Mynott commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  Which languages are you talking about? Both Lisp and Fortran have actively developed multiple versions.

• Zoffix Znet commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  I briefly looked at Fortran’s wiki and didn’t see the variants section right away, which, I think corroborates the OP’s point of view about confusion. But even after reading the Variants section, it doesn’t seem to say that, say Fortran 6 is an entirely new and different language compared to Fortran 5, which is certainly the case with Perl 6/Perl 5.

• chris fedde commented on On the Semantic Naming of Things

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40K6rApRnhQ

• aod7br commented on Why in The World Would Anyone Use Perl 6?

  Man, I was very suspicious of perl6. Like many here, it took so long... and python is so good (GIT and object serialization limits being the main annoying things). But after watching Larry's presentation of perl6 and your presentation here http://tpm2016.zoffix.com/# I was in awe. Yes Perl6 is amazing, beyond what I expected. I even wrote an article about it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/perl-again-andre-oliveira-dias
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