Blogger Ovid writes
about the push to rebrand Perl 6. “So yeah, there’s
bitterness and the Perl community not only needs to heal, but we need to
find a way forward for both languages. The suggestion to change the name of
Perl 6 to ‘raku’ is effectively designed to make this happen. Perl 5 can
figure out how to get beyond the branding issue that’s been plaguing it and
Perl 6 can do the same thing.“

Source: LWN.net – Ovid: Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?