[cesarb]

> Changing the name to Raku doesn't obliterate Perl 6's history as Larry Wall's successor to Perl 5.

Further than that, the name change only happened after it already had at least one official release under the "Perl 6" name.

[ab5tract]

It was just as annoying to constantly be pulled into discussions about Perl 5 in threads about Perl 6 back then too.