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by librasteve 19 hours ago
well the whole point of the rename is to sidestep the Perl vs. Raku navelgazing
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Indeed, but I guess the Perl/Raku haters don't have anything of actual meat in their complaints, so off bike-shedding about the most trivial shit we go.
> Perl/Raku haters don't have anything of actual meat in their complaints

For a random complaint of mine (one of many) see [1]. Using Perl as my main programming language for 3.5 years has given me plenty of "meat" to throw around; I just don't want to bore people with it, nor do I want to re-live the trauma.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42460014

Larry Ellison should buy it, then there would be no need for technical arguments any more, just like Java. You could just say "lawnmower" to end the debate on ethical grounds.