Re:A Review of Perl 6
by cygx on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:48PM
(#15005660)
I think you're trying to solve the wrong problem: Don't move the languages further apart through rebranding, move the implementations closer together through improved interoperability.
Have a frontend that can invoke the perl5 interpreter as well as Rakudo as appropriate, supporting the perl5 command line flags, and arguably quite a bit of the problem goes away.
Re:A Review of Perl 6
by panic on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:07PM
(#15006028)
Maybe the problem isn't with the "Perl" part of the name, but with the "6" part? It sounds like an incremental update when it's actually a new language.
Have a frontend that can invoke the perl5 interpreter as well as Rakudo as appropriate, supporting the perl5 command line flags, and arguably quite a bit of the problem goes away.