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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by kamaal on Thursday February 05, 2015 @12:58AM (#9001975)
That's not exactly true. While its true that there issues with Perl. Its still by and large a language widely used by developers across the world. There is a also a huge and a very active community which does amazing things with it. Now taking away the name means re doing some 2.5 decades of marketing all over again. No body needs to go over that all over again.

There is a set of programmers with whom this won't go down well. Enterprise programmers and the hipsters.

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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by singingfish on Thursday February 05, 2015 @01:34AM (#9002054)
don't forget the hipster enterprise programmers (aka the contractors)
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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by peterwwillis on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:58AM (#9003501)
how are contractors the hipsters of enterprises? if anything they're the yuppies. do whatever the fuck they want, get paid boatloads of cash, don't produce anything of value, are generally dicks. i think you're thinking of brooklyn trustfund hipsters, which are just the new yuppies.
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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by Ovid on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:17AM (#9003596)
I'm a consultant, produce plenty of value, have very happy customers, and I don't get called a "dick" too often. Don't pay all of us with the same brush, please :)

(Note: I'm the guy who wrote the post OP linked to)

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Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL by singingfish on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:04PM (#9013008)
Us perl contractors (former in my case, a decent job in my home town with good working conditions came up) are what the enterprise turn to when they need to circumvent the bureaucracy.
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