Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku

Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by cgh on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:05PM (#21230121)

> Calling it Raku is a chance to get what the Perl 6 team actually did out into the world without the stench of death following it.

"Raku" = "cancer" in Polish. Not a lot of Polish enthusiasm forthcoming, I'd imagine.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by techcode on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:14AM (#21231002)

I'd imagine that chances are high that whatever name you pick for something in one language - there would be another language in this world in which same or similar word means bad/offensive thing.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by janeroe on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:40AM (#21248097)

And not just Polish, most (if not all) Slavic languages. What a perfect name indeed.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by Merg on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:14AM (#21239583)

No it is not. "Rak" is both cancer and crayfish in Polish.

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