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Raku

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Sep 20, 2026

AndyHOST
19:20
I lost track of where it got to.
KevinHOST
19:21
There was something called like Raku or something that was related.
KevinHOST
19:25
I don't know.
AndyHOST
19:25
I think Raku is what they named the language that was going to be the sixth version of Perl, but it turned out too different, I think.
AndyHOST
19:33
Anyway, actually, that does bring me on to a point of, like, what is your level of abstraction? So for me, the reason why I named and shamed Python 3 here for it ought to be able to handle strings, and to some extent it handles strings very well, a very, like, you don't have to think about it, is because Python's level of abstraction is right for that.
AndyHOST
19:52
And like you were saying, Kevin, Rust's level of abstraction is not right for that.
AndyHOST
19:20
I lost track of where it got to.
KevinHOST
19:21
There was something called like Raku or something that was related.
KevinHOST
19:25
I don't know.
AndyHOST
19:25
I think Raku is what they named the language that was going to be the sixth version of Perl, but it turned out too different, I think.
AndyHOST
19:33
Anyway, actually, that does bring me on to a point of, like, what is your level of abstraction? So for me, the reason why I named and shamed Python 3 here for it ought to be able to handle strings, and to some extent it handles strings very well, a very, like, you don't have to think about it, is because Python's level of abstraction is right for that.
AndyHOST
19:52
And like you were saying, Kevin, Rust's level of abstraction is not right for that.

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