[DonHopkins]

>fantastic backwards compatibility

Yeah, Perl 6 was so <s>fantastically compatible</s> it took so many decades to come out they had to rename it something else so as not to confuse people.

>Because this isn’t Python

Perl 6 isn't Perl, either.

[nerdponx]

It's not called Perl 6 anymore for exactly this reason.

[mst]

Most of us never considered Raku, even before the rename, to be Perl.

A perl in the sense that, say, Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure all count as a lisp.

But no further.