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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Sharlin on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:38PM (#21229114)
There was something strangely familiar about the word "raku" but it took me a moment to make the connection. In Finnish, "raakku" is a common name for the mollusc species Margaritifera margaritifera, better known as the… freshwater pearl mussel! [1] I'm really not sure if this is an amazing coincidence or yet another layer of linguistic brilliance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_pearl_mussel

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by GolDDranks on Saturday October 12, 2019 @03:44AM (#21231318)
Oh wow, I didn't know that, but I know that there is/was a band called "Raakku ja helmet". I always thought "Raakku" was a humorous nickname of the singer, because "raakkua" means "to cry like a crow", i.e. not so well. But "raakku" meaning "a mussel" brings a whole new level of meaning: "Mussel and the Pearls".
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