Originally posted by kpedersen
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Raku is Not Perl, and hasn't been since they renamed the project to recognize it was a new and different language.
perl6 aka rakudo moar or whatever aka raku came about because people wanted classes and other modern features in perl6 but wanted it *done right*. The raku folk with Wall's poking ended up debating for a decade and then rewrote the whole language - it is not akin to french evolving from latin with some additions, its a totally different language.
Those that wanted to fix the traditional perl dialect seem to have stuck around and keep adding improvements, and this is one of those. I'm sure perl is even more expressive now, for better or worse.
perl devs from my experiences at meeting them at conferences/talks/LUG were traditionally older and more conservative and willing to debate fine points of grammar. I wonder if they are retiring out (Wall is what almost 70) and newer devs or business is driving this sort of change - I could never see anyone agreeing on a class implementation in perl5 15 years ago - but I'm so out of touch with the community these days this is just conjecture.
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