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Allison on 2003-02-17T21:10:16

Your reactions please: I need a groan rating on the phrase "Perl: The Next Generation". Let's say a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is "mildly amusing" and 10 is "something akin to Vogon poetry".

It's not awful

pdcawley on 2003-02-17T21:47:15

But I speak as one who used an (over) extended Star Trek metaphor to close the 'Perl 6: Not Just For Damians' article.

Opinions

jjohn on 2003-02-17T22:38:33

I need a groan rating on the phrase "Perl: The Next Generation".

I'm sorry to say: Vogon Poetry. There are too many NextGen projects. Besides, if you want to get a good rise of out the typical Perl audience, I suggest: Perl NT (New Technology). Microsoft seems to be done with the phrase. :-)

I give it a '9'

wickline on 2003-02-17T23:14:35

all my organs are still functioning, so it must not be as bad as Vogon poetry.

-matt

Re:I give it a '9'

vsergu on 2003-02-17T23:27:39

Maybe an 8.

Re:I give it a '9'

gizmo_mathboy on 2003-02-18T03:27:00

I would give it a 9 as well.

However, I am in negotiation with the French and Russian judges and may give it a rating of 1 depending upon the outcome of those talks.

Indifference

belg4mit on 2003-02-17T23:18:33

~5

~5

ask on 2003-02-18T03:05:17

Not really funny.

"Perl NT" as jjohn suggested is good though. :)

Tally

Allison on 2003-02-18T04:58:40

Okay, looks like a "yuck", but not as overwhelmingly "yuck" as I expected. It wasn't my idea, and I'm trying to decide how strenuously to object to it. I'm torn: I'm a Trek geek, but TNG has been over-used (abused?) in the past 15 years.

(Don't worry, I'm not looking for a new name for the Perl 6 project, just a tagline for a book.)

Thanks, guys!

Does this thing go to 12?

hfb on 2003-02-18T06:41:10

Unless it comes with a boobatious Counsellor Troi who can save the perl generation with her empathic skills I'd say it's hackneyed even around computer geeks.

How about 'Leave it to Perl' and I'll let you guess who gets to play 'the beav' :)

Counsellor Troi

Allison on 2003-02-18T21:36:38

Right, she goes on my list of possible recruits. ;)

bleargh

chromatic on 2003-02-18T19:16:27

Unless it's The Next Generation of Perl, it's worse than putting a goat on the cover! Now if you could talk them into something like Perl for the Next Twenty Years, that might work better.

Re:bleargh

Allison on 2003-02-18T21:30:22

That's a sheep, a Barbary sheep to be specific. Nat's gonna love it. ;)

My vote's on "The Community's Rewrite of Perl".