What I find most irritating about these articles is that they completely dismiss progress in Perl v5

I totally agree. In fact, judging from perl5.10 I'd say it almost doesn't matter of perl6 ever finishes. We keep getting fine and exciting features inspired or created in perl6. I think the only people that really obsess about perl6 are the people working on it, the people testing it, and outsiders who think we need perl6 to move forward.

I also think parrot is exciting whether or not there are other virtual machines. I day dream of a day when I can compile very high level languages to a virtual machine of my choice. Maybe my perl6 runs on a jvm, a .net, and a parrot just fine...

UPDATE: Yeah, I didn't intend any negative connotation... I fail to see how you could work on a project as big as perl6 without being a little obsessed.

-Paul

In reply to Re^2: Is it too late for Parrot VM? by jettero
in thread Is it too late for Parrot VM? by nikosv

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