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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 02:06:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:23:47 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> "Feature creep" ... you keep having to figure out how to jam new
> stuff into the middle of the old stuff until you just have a total
> MESS. That's when you're supposed to totally re-do, or abandon, but
> Perl was already too well 'established' so they were stuck with
> what/how ' came before.

Which is where the Perl 6 project came in. But it took so long to come to 
fruition, and was such a radical change, that it was decided to stop 
calling it “Perl” altogether, and make it an entirely new language -- 
“Raku”, I think is the name now.