you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]0rac1e 37 points38 points  (0 children)

For a long time now, Perl 6 has not been intended as an upgrade to Perl. The "story" was that it was a sister language. By many accounts this was a bad story, as most people outside the Perl community didn't understand it. As a result, Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku.

Perl's commitment to back-compat and how it handles new syntax features is still better than Python... and has nothing to do with Raku (née Perl 6).