Re: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade

I may be misreading your comments, but your tone implies a degree of dissatisfaction with the Perl 6 development process. I'm wondering why exactly?

You've invested a lot of money / time in the Perl 6 development process and you think the Perl 6 development team are a bunch of stoopid good-for-nothing slackers?
There is something that only Perl 6 can do, and your income / well-being / success with your gender of choice depends solely on a pre-2007 release? Of a programming language, no less...
You are, in fact, Larry Wall and feel like having an anonymous whinge?
...something else?

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Re^2: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2006 at 14:25 UTC
I remember this incident... Jon showed up to the meeting late and found us talking about the community and started throwing things to express his discontent with how perl itself was stagnating, possibly even dying, and that we should be talking about reviving Perl. I believe in momentum. If it takes too long, it will wear down the very people working on it and diminish the interest and expectations of those eagerly awaiting its release.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by tirwhan (Abbot) on Jan 18, 2006 at 14:57 UTC
And you feel that whining about it on perlmonks will somehow increase momentum? More than contributing to one of the many projects/resources that lead up to Perl 6 would? There are ten types of people: those that understand binary and those that don't.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2006 at 15:17 UTC
I'm not whinning. I think you should look at it positively. I have been using Perl and I love it. If I could contribute, I would have done it in 2001. I was concerned that if it dragged on, it might never materialise.	[reply]
Re^5: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jan 18, 2006 at 15:32 UTC
Re^5: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by john_oshea (Priest) on Jan 18, 2006 at 15:29 UTC
Re^5: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by tirwhan (Abbot) on Jan 18, 2006 at 15:23 UTC
Re^6: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2006 at 15:55 UTC
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Re^3: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by blazar (Canon) on Jan 18, 2006 at 14:59 UTC
I believe in momentum. If it takes too long, it will wear down the very people working on it and diminish the interest and expectations of those eagerly awaiting its reease. I believe in FSM. "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed (...) and camels and parrots and finally a creature called Perl 6!" Now, it happens that in recent times FSM gave me a sign: evidence is that people is not being worn down and that on the contrary we're living a period of renewed interest and intense development that doesn't give the slightest sign of slowing down. That's since Pugs appeared... Update: `s/FMS/FSM/` as per Nude Reaper's remark - in case you wonder, even though it was repeated twice, it was a typo, of course.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade by Nude Reaper (Initiate) on Jan 19, 2006 at 02:55 UTC
That would be FSM	[reply]