And because of prison slang this term still means 'the vocabulary of "low or disreputable" people' (Wikipedia quote).
That's terrible marketing name.
I personally like "Perl 6". In my company a lot of developers know what Perl is and they associate Perl in general with both line noise and awesome parsing capabilities. And some of them (mostly PHP/JS developers) are familiar with new Perl 6 features like great unicode support or Rat calculations. So it's a strong brand that is getting positive feedback right now. Rebranding to Rakudo or 6lang means basically to throw away all the marketing done in the past years - blog posts, advent calendars, conferences - and start from scratch with building new brand recognition. Additionally causing a lot of confusion because if someone uses a "Rakudo language" and tries to find how to resolve some issue on the internet he will miss all of those existing Perl 6 articles.
Moreover, telling them Perl 6 is really cool and a big improvement over the "old version" at least has a ring of familiarity. Rakudo ... psix, 6lang (ugh), those are all strangers and bound to be regarded with suspicion.
Just another larry.
]]>I don't like the brand name Perl 6. It is such a different and more powerful language than Perl 5, not the next version of Perl 5 and not with any of the baggage that Perl 5 comes with. Naming it Perl 6 was a huge mistake that can be fixed and should be fixed now, it's not too late.
Branding the language and spec 6lang will completely differentiate it from Perl 5 which it should be. Perl and Perl 5 can then continue on it's own track not in the shadow of 6lang, and 6lang can have a fresh start without any of the baggage of Perl 5. Cut the umbilical cord!
zoffix++ you have my vote and support
]]>In the end, I mostly agree with https://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2017/10/6lang-naming-proposal-is-good.html.
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