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Before the rename, any thread about any Perl 6 topic would harp about how it's a terrible name.

Now after the rename, I guess every HN discussion will have a subthread discussing how the rename was terrible, and it should've stayed Perl 6.

There's just no pleasing the Internet crowd.

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This happens a lot. The thing is the “crowd” becomes a somewhat meaningless concept when you attempt to assign it opinions. There are two different subsets of the crowd and only one is complaining at any time.

This can also come up in political contexts when some of your adversaries say something, but you don’t track which of them said it, and instead assign the opinion to [democrats, republicans, libertarians] as a whole. Next thing you know you think they’re all dirty hypocrites arguing in bad faith, and it takes an effort to see otherwise.

> Now after the rename, I guess every HN discussion will have a subthread discussing how the rename was terrible, and it should've stayed Perl 6.

I don't see any evidence for this claim. Besides those on the inside, I have yet to see any support for naming a different language as logical next version of another.

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