Bill Ricker

• Website: boston.pm.org
• About: Boston.pm facilitator. Consultant for The Perl Shop. aka 'n1vux' on irc etc.

Recent Actions

• Commented on A Request to Larry Wall to Create a Language Name Alias for Perl 6
  I support a Marketing alias for all the reasons itemized above. I thought 6lang was already accepted as the Community alias? But 6lang isn't really a Marketing alias....
• Posted Mark Fowler, "Perl Advent Calendar Redux" to Bill Ricker

  For the October 9 gathering of Boston Perl Mongers we'll be hosted by MaxMind in Waltham, instead of our usual MIT location. Our speaker will be Mark Fowler.

  (Boston.PM is happy to accept this offer of hosting from MaxMind, and would welcome hosting of…

• Commented on given/when and lexical $_ ...
  Here's a work-around. A bit ugly but ... when(1) { say $_ if any {our $_; $_ == 2} (2,3)} The Anonymous function can specify that it's not a closure over the implicit lexical $_ of given but rather is...

Comment Threads

• 6031796 commented on A Request to Larry Wall to Create a Language Name Alias for Perl 6

  This is a clear, rational, well-argued call for a long overdue better
  name for this new language and I wholeheartedly endorse it.

  The continuing use of the Perl6 name is proving to be both damaging to
  the wider perception of the two languages (Perl and Perl6) and also
  creating disharmony between the communities invested in them.

  Larry, please see the light and acquiesce. Choose a name that doesn't
  involve "Perl" and improve the future for all.
  

• tangent commented on A Request to Larry Wall to Create a Language Name Alias for Perl 6

  I fully support what you say here Zoffix. And Larry, you have given us so much - thank you - but please, one more thing...

• sowhat commented on A Request to Larry Wall to Create a Language Name Alias for Perl 6

  How about "PerlanG"?

  This name keeps our beloved word "Perl" but pronounce entirely different like per-lang.

  The last two letters "nG" imply "nextGen" while the first and the last letter "PG" looks like the file extention "p6".

  Just another funny idea, LOL

• finanalyst commented on A Request to Larry Wall to Create a Language Name Alias for Perl 6

  I just read most of the attachments, and watched the video of Larry's keynote. There are two issues, and perhaps there is a compromise.

  Everything Zoffix Znet has said I agree with! In fact, it is a reiteration of the points made by Damian.

  However, there is a very significant aspect that both Larry and Damian have pointed out, one that is valuable and should not, ever, be devalued: community. The Perl community is - as Damian pointed out - warm, helping, supportive.

  I think that Larry is concerned that by naming the Perl 6 language by anything other than Perl, it wou…