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Re: I understand your point of view but on the other hand we can make the parallel with Perl 5 and 6. Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https:/
by lizmat 7y ago
Re: I understand your point of view but on the other hand we can make the parallel with Perl 5 and 6.
Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). So Perl and Raku are now considered to be different languages, albeit from the same inspiration.
Now, if Python 2 people would decide to rename Python 2 to something else, I guess it would be a mirrored parallel :-)
- simias 7y agoThat's precisely what's happening with the third-party Python2 forks. The renaming of Perl 6 occurred last October, specifically because of the problems caused by the confusion between the incompatible Perl 5 and 6 that caused a lot of trouble to the Perl people on either side for many years. It's not a mirrored parallel, it's the Python folks learning from Perl's mistakes and making sure that this parallel won't come to be.