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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by ddaa10 on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:59PM (#21228873)
> Foogols get new names every couple decades (PL/I to Ada to C to C++ to Java to C#... )

+1 for Foogol. Reference to commercially obscure language but annoyingly influencial Algol?

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by msla on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:46PM (#21230517)
> +1 for Foogol. Reference to commercially obscure language but annoyingly influencial Algol?

Yes, even though I don't dislike Algol and the Algol syntax style, necessarily, I just wish they'd imported more Lisp influence sooner.

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