The Readable History §

The readable version of the history is contained in the following three articles:

Decade	Years	Summary
The First Decade	2000-2010	Design and Beginnings
The Second Decade (not yet written)	2010-2020	Building and Renaming
The Third Decade (not yet written)	2020-2025	AST and Ecosystem

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Timeline §

Please add other events to this timeline

Date	Event
2000-07-18	The Jon Orwant Mug Throwing Incident, at the Perl Conference 4.0 (July 17-20, 2000)
2000	Larry's Speech
2005-02-02	A. Tang announces beginning implementation of Pugs
2005	Patrick Michaud begins implemeting what would (in 2008) become Rakudo on Parrot
2009-03-17	Parrot 1.0 released
2010-07-29	Rakudo Star released
2017-10-02	Final commit to Parrot
2021-08	Parrot discontinued (replaced with MoarVM)

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Regarding the mug-throwing incident (see "The First Decade"), see also:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221206183705/https://raku.org/archive/talks/2000/als/larry-als.txt
https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.packrats/2002/07/msg3.html

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First Decade
The Jon Orwant Mug-throwing Incident Documented at https://web.archive.org/web/20221206183705/https://raku.org/archive/talks/2000/als/larry-als.txt There was some on the mailing list too
A summary of the design process (Apocalypses, Exegeses, Synopses, etc)
cf. Old Design Documents
A little aside on the Perl6/Parrot setup
Pugs
Second Decade
When was Rakudo rewritten on MoarVM?
When was the Perl6 > Raku rename?
When were we booted from CPAN?
When did zef begin, and what preceeded it?
When did we transition from specs to roast
Any relevant material from design.raku.org, and also copies of the historical docs (Apocalypses, etc)
The Third Decade
When was 6.c released?
When was 6.d released?
Were there earlier versions (6.b, 6.a), and are they still supported?
When did the RakuAST refactor begin?
When did rakubrew begin?