Hello, On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 12:23:19PM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > I am just not sure, why perl6 is named to raku?
Because Perl 5 still exists and is still seeing new releases, and what is now Raku is a completely different language, so there is no prospect of Perl 5 ceasing to be developed with all its users moving to what was then called Perl 6. Perl 6 needed a new name so as to stop being a source of confusion between itself and Perl 5. > I think python3 is much different to python2, but it's still naming as > python. The Python Software Foundation has marked CPython 2 (the default Python interpreter) as End Of Life since 2020. It also owns the trademark to "Python" and will not allow anyone else to make an interpreter that is called Python that extends the life of Python 2 with new features. The only existing distributable versions of CPython 2 are either old releases or strictly security fixes. The PSF wants Python 2 to die; they only concern themselves with Python 3. There are actively developed language interpreters that are compatible with Python 2 that aren't called Python, e.g. PyPy and Jython. So in fact even Python 2 is not yet dead as a language. > If perl6 was just named as perl6, isn't it more clear? Perl 5 still has plenty of active developers of both itself and applications written in it who don't want to move to Raku. Raku is a lot more different to Perl 5 than Python 3 is different to Python 2. The Perl Foundation (which owns the Perl and Raku trademarks) doesn't want Perl 5 to die. So hopefully you can see now that things are different because things are different. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
