Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by coldtea on Saturday October 12, 2019 @06:45AM
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>Naming matters
Not that much.
>Nim changing from "Nimrod" matters
Hardly.
>Cockroachdb's name is offputting.
Not enough to matter. They still raised over $60 million in funding...
Many people have internalized Marketing/SEO/enterprise-pointy-hair-boss thinking about "what matters", but in the grand scheme of things, naming is not really that relevant...
Not that much.
>Nim changing from "Nimrod" matters
Hardly.
>Cockroachdb's name is offputting.
Not enough to matter. They still raised over $60 million in funding...
Many people have internalized Marketing/SEO/enterprise-pointy-hair-boss thinking about "what matters", but in the grand scheme of things, naming is not really that relevant...