Given that, it's 23 years old and done by Larry Wall so it's not exactly yet another fly-by-night hype language, just something that is not in the top 50.
It used to be, but not anymore.
It has grown to be its own thing with some happenstance parenthood through being born from an early attempt at Perl 6, and thus is now only being slightly more related to Perl than e.g Ruby is. Ok I'm pushing it but you get the idea: taking a biological analogy, it has mutated away far enough that it is now considered to be its own strain.
And if that helps clear some doubts, Perl 7 is on the table (if there ever needs to be a Perl 7):
At some point in the future, the PSC may decide that the set of features, taken together, represent a big enough step forward to justify a new baseline for Perl. If that happens, then the version will be bumped to 7.0.
So Raku cannot be Perl 6!
Given that, nobody got the memo, so calling it "perl 6" is still a very fast way to orient people as to what it's a neighbor of.
Here, "some swimming creature" is the totality of the objective, we aren't trying to do a crash course in marine zoology or trying to explain what a Sirenia is or what a fish technically means.
Saying it's perl-6 means that it's not say, lisp-like or some kind of prolog or haskell. It's a relatively swift approximation and that's the totality of the objective.
C of 40 years ago is nothing like modern c.
Same for basic.
int foo(s, f)
char* s;
float f;
{ ... }
https://docs.raku.org/language/grammar_tutorial
> Regular expressions (Regexes) work well for finding patterns in strings. However, for some tasks, like finding multiple patterns at once, or combining patterns, or testing for patterns that may surround strings regular expressions, alone, are not enough.
> When working with HTML, you could define a grammar to recognize HTML tags, both the opening and closing elements, and the text in between. You could then organize these elements into data structures, such as arrays or hashes.
(disclaimer: I don't actually know Raku that well, but it is very high on my list of languages to learn)
OOP, functional programming, strong/dynamic typing, declarative /imperative - you’ve got it, we got you covered
According to the guide[2]:
> Raku is a high-level, general-purpose, gradually typed language. Raku is multi-paradigmatic. It supports Procedural, Object Oriented, and Functional programming.
That really doesn't tell me enough. Anyone else have any idea why I might want to use Raku vs one of the many other langs to which those adjectives can be applied?
[1] https://docs.raku.org/
[2] https://raku.guide/#_what_is_raku