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genio, I never said the naming convention doesn't lead to confusion. I may have said
(and currently believe) that keeping the name was a better of two bad options.

jberger, I never represent the Perl 5 community. It wasn't an attempt to throw anything
under the bus. The infamous Perl 5 mailing list is an oft-cited by people who say they
avoid the "Perl community" and I distance Perl 6 as far away from that infamy as I
can.

suede, ehh, what's wrong with being arrogant? You see, from my point of view, I spent a
week reading IEEE standards and debugging compiler trig and set code, while another
volunteer spent even more time optimizing shaped arrays, while three or four other
volunteers mopped up assorted range of conc. bugs. We're doing great and happy about it
all, but today we wake up and there's a huge post on HN with everyone who never
bothered to ask core devs about anything proffering all sorts of crazy theories that
all essentially boil down to tell us that we're wasting our time. I answered a few
questions from genuinely curious, but I see no reason to dance around people who seek
nothing else but to infuriate.

There's about a dozen of volunteers who commit on a "regular" basis and only 2 or 3 who
commit nearly daily. We don't have resources for impeccable documentation, spotless
builds, or "video of a cheering room." If you want to help, join #perl6 on
irc.freenode.net, but slugging us off in some side-channel won't gain anything.