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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by jdporter on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:35PM (#21229958)
Of course it's from the Bible -- as a quick google would have told you. It's Mark 2:21-22.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by giancarlostoro on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:12AM (#21230624)
That's "rhakos" and doesn't explain it well since this comes from "Rakudo", but Rhakos means torn off cloth according to Strong's Greek concordance. I guess it fits though.
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