The other day I saw some shows on either The Learning Channel or The Discovery Channel (I don't remember which). One was about how novel structures are being built for the next Olympics in China and another was about how larger buildings are being designed to house essentially an entire city in a single building. Still another was about a large football stadium they're building in Arizona.

These shows made me wonder if architects and engineers go through the same things that we're seeing with perl6. When an architect is designing a new, novel building does he endure lots of people saying "It'll never get built!" and then when it is being built does he hear crys of "It's taking too long! How come it's not finished yet?" Does this happen with all new things and I only notice it with perl6 because I'm looking at it from the "inside"?

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