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Raku

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Raku, formerly known as Perl 6, is a member of the Perl family of programming languages, originally initiated by Larry Wall in 2000 as a redesign of Perl 5, and renamed to Raku in October 2019. Raku introduces elements from many modern and historical languages, and features a strong, gradual type system, native support for grammars, and multiple dispatch, while remaining a general-purpose, multi-paradigm scripting language.

Facts
First Released
2015 1
Paradigm
Multi-paradigm 1
Significance
The Raku object system has inspired the Moose framework, bringing many of Raku's object-oriented programming features to Perl 1
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Preceded By

Sources
1. Raku (programming language), Wikipedia
  • Infobox, First appeared
    25 December 2015; 10 years ago (2015-12-25)
  • Infobox, Paradigm
    Multi-paradigm
  • Object-oriented programming section
    The Raku object system has inspired the Moose framework that introduces many of Raku's OOP features to Perl.
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