Ok, kidding aside, why?

Since this has gone unanswered, I'll give it a shot. Here are some of my reasons for playing with Pugs (and note that this is an unordered list on purpose):

• It's a lot of fun tracking a fast-moving project
• Especially when you submit bug reports that get fixed less than 24 hours later
• The new language seems to be very nice, if the snippets of code I've written for Pugs are any indication
• It's a nice way to learn Perl 6 gradually, "just for fun"
• I have a feeling that following the development of the language and implementation will help immensely later on
• Just by finding bugs and checking in test cases, I get my name in the AUTHORS file ;-)

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