You see ... if it was labeled experiment from the very beginning it could have had a big and positive impact on versions 7 and 8 of the Perl language. The language not-yet-fully-designed within the project would be just as incomplete, but some of the experience gained in the process could have affected both Perl modules and the language. A bit like it did, but probably more. More importantly it would not have hurt the name of Perl and the community and would not have caused so much bad blood.

Hi,

this sounds like you being a little bit upset about things in the past. I never dived into Perl 6 and the long history of that project including the highs and lows. Probably intersting stuff. :-)

McA

Every year perl-6 has more Perl programmers by %-age of the total, but unfortunately not because perl-6 has more programmers.

Because people aren't using Perl anymore, thanks to perl-6 being useless for so long.