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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by codesections on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:03PM (#21229801)
> On a good day this is nuanced yet clear and informative, on a bad day it is James Joyce.

If Raku's "bad day" is basically like "one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century" (according to Wikipedia)… well, then, maybe I should check Raku out!

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by tangental on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:27PM (#21229905)
I think the reference was to languages in general. In James Joyce's Ulysses there are four or five chapters which all tell basically the same story, but written in wildly different styles - one like an ancient legend, another a 'stream of consciuosness', and so on.
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