@Lunaphied @fedward @mhoye Yes, raku is fun and good. It is essentially perl with the bad things (ambiguous syntax, lack of static typing and good OO) fixed and cool stuff thrown in (grammars, hyperoperators,...). It feels like complex analysis versus real analysis in math: perl5 and real functions can be a nightmare full of traps and counterexamples; with perl6 and complex functions almost anything that looks plausible is proven to be correct.

@mhoye I tend to disagree a bit about perl. Yes, it looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but the amount of initiation is not huge. I understand that this is pushing away beginners who in Python can just start typing code. OTOH, perl was invented by a linguist and it is intended to be dumped into the Wernicke area and parsed there, whereas python looks like line noise piped thru `gzip -d` , resulting in phrases exceeding the input buffer size of said area. Disclaimer: I'm 64 and use raku.