I believe it's not radical at all compared to the Perl 6 idea. It's basically "strict Perl 5" if I'm reading it right. If Larry had said from the start "Let's

I believe it's not radical at all compared to the Perl 6 idea. It's basically "strict Perl 5" if I'm reading it right. If Larry had said from the start "Let's make a new language and call it Raku" we would have had Perl 6 long ago, it would have been called Perl Enterprise Edition in the business world, and you'd never have heard of Python or PHP because everyone would be using Perl. Oh well, better late than never.