Will

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• 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...
• Commented on The Ten Minute Thinking Rule
  See also 'Rubber Duck Problem Solving': http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem-solving.html...

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• 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).