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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by b2gills on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:12AM (#21267257)
Microsoft had to skip 9 because programmers are lazy.

A lot of programs refused to work if there was a `9` in the version name.

That was of course because those programs needed something newer than Windows 95 or Windows 98. So they just did a string search for `9` in the version name.

There may be a few programs that wouldn't work on `8.9` or `10.9` if they were released for the same reason.

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