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I'm trying to work this out but not having much luck - Perl 6 was a "lets make a bunch of breaking changes and modernize Perl a bit", and now that's branched off as a new language called Raku.

Now there's Perl 7, which is sort of the same idea as Perl 6 was, but less radical with the changes? Are the same people working on both? Is Larry involved with both?

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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.

Larry has not been involved with Perl 5 for the past 20 years, and not in Perl 6 for the past 3 years or so.

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