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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by make3 on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:43PM (#21227733)
.. in the old guard of language technology research I guess, because in my NLP lab, no one knows the first thing about Perl (everything is done in Python)
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by proverbialbunny on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:09PM (#21227966)
More than that. I wrote my first machine learning project in Perl.

Perl 5 is better than Python in many ways, but worse in other ways. Raku seems to have none of the downsides Perl 5 had, but all of the upsides. Raku looks like it could be a valid replacement for Python in the ML space.

Also, back then, Perl 5 had better libraries than Python. Though, that was quite a while ago.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by ttkciar on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:23PM (#21228105)
We don't have an "NLP lab" here, but when my project required NLP solutions, perl delivered quite nicely.
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