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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by giancarlostoro on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:44PM (#21228775)
Does not sound like anything from the Bible I have ever read. Theres other commentary on this HN post about the many meanings of the name though.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Grinnz on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:04AM (#21230804)
I think the comment was asking about the quote in the linked comment, not the name (which was chosen as an alias many months ago).
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by vgetr on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:48PM (#21230024)
It is - the book of Matthew, specifically.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by giancarlostoro on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:10AM (#21230615)
You're thinking of "Raca" from Matthew, it wouldn't make sense for him to call it based on that verse though since it's not a pleasant word. Jesus specifically says not to call your brother Raca. Why would he call his language that...
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