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Had viewers of Police academy 6 been treated to a brutal crime drama, rather than a continuation of the farce found in the series to date, you'd expect them to just get used to it, rather than accept that naming as the next version of something vastly different is a dumb idea.

Edit* I make no criticism of the language, simply the argument that a different language should have been named as the incremental release of another.

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Highlander 2: Scotts from Space would have been a better comparison than Police Academy 6.

They both got 0% on rotten tomatoes, but I don’t think Police Academy 6 tried to switch genres.

That is my point. "Perl" didn't try to change genres, something different came along and called itself "Perl 6". No disrespect to either language, but linguistically this is has a negative impact for both Perl 5 and "Perl 6". Maintaining that certain people got "used to" the idea proves that it was never a wise move.

Also, note what chromatic has to say:

https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=1220578

https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=11105180

And so on.

> something different came along and called itself "Perl 6"

You appear to forget that the "Perl 6" initiative originally came from the Perl 5 Porters. It did not just come along and called itself "Perl 6": the "Perl 6" name was used because originally it was intended as the successor of Perl 5.

That it didn't materialize in time, that it became something much different, is something that happened later. But even with Pugs around 2005, Perl 6 was still the successor to Perl 5. Only around 2010, when the sister language concept was introduced, was Perl 6 considered to be a different language.

The concept of perl 6, at some stage shifted from being the next incremental release of the Perl language, sure. For around 10 or so years the Perl 6 crew knew this was going to be a different language, yet held onto the name for this period of time and even made arguments in public that Perl 6 should remain the name, given all the facts, as recently as last year. This sort of thing can cause problems in communities, and nobody on the outside of the inner clan really cares, beyond the point that all the slight of hand and infighting pushes good folk away.

Bullying Isn't Effective Advocacy: https://perlmonks.com/?node_id=1221390

Also, when it was known Perl 6 was going to be a different language, they were several year away from a release

On the other hand Return of the Living Dead 3 did switch genres.

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