A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL
I think the thing that would make perl 6 really successful would be to call it something other than perl. Many people who have programmed perl for a long time seem to think it is an abomination of the first order, many people who have never programmed in perl think perl is some sort of dead language like COBOL or PL/1. Both groups are going to have a systemic aversion to this new language simply based on its name. And that is unfortunate.<p>There are neat things in this new language and there is no reason to leave the sea anchor of a name attached to it. Call it something fresh and new and it can be the cool hotness that is up and coming.