Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by jrumbut on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:04PM (#21230113)

It's different from the newer languages, it's different from the older languages, it's it's own thing. I find it really beautiful for that reason.

Who knew you could do that in a programming language? Not sure I would have ever thought to try.

I even love the above sample while loop, you can tell the person who posted it is good because they can't create too heinous an example. The <> and $_ provide what I think of as visual anchors that describe a path for the data to follow. Obviously some style minded author could do it better, but it's not bad. The real line noise is from the one-liners for systems tasks I think.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by weare138 on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:35PM (#21230255)

I totally agree, I didn't mean what I said in a negative way at all. That's how I got into Perl. What made it cool to me was just how different it was. It's experimental, esoteric and functional all at the same time depending on how you use it.

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