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Perl and Raku Both Anticipating Newfound Glory

Perl 6 is going to be renamed to Raku. What will that change herald? 
Despite Perl 6 starting out as a community rewrite, Larry Wall still possessed the rights to the name. As such despite the name change calls from prominent and core members of the project's development community, which were funneled into pull requests on its GitHub repository, Larry's approval was still required.
He finally gave in in replying to pull request Path to raku  in Biblical fashion:
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