Re: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long

Given the number of developers it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that it's taking a while. Personally, I favor good and cheap over fast.
It's not like other languages are going to wipe out Perl in a hurry, anyway. The C language has been around for about 30(?) years and BASIC in all its forms at least 25 years.
I'm willing to wait for Perl6 and Parrot to meet the design requirements because once it is done it is likely to be around for thirty years or more.
Your manhour calculation comes out to 25 hours a week for each of those 10 developers,
which means they are each putting in a significant chunk of their non-work time into this.
So they deserve kudos instead of brickbats.

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Re^2: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long (and Basic) by grinder (Bishop) on Feb 28, 2006 at 08:40 UTC
The C language has been around for about 30(?) years and BASIC in all its forms at least 25 years Basic is nearly twice as old as that. It was written by Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth University in the early 1960s. On the subject of Basic, in case people haven't seen it yet, Audrey Tang's Visual Basic Rocks talk is a required read. • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl	[reply]

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Re^2: Why Perl 6 is taking so !@#$ long (and Basic)
by grinder (Bishop) on Feb 28, 2006 at 08:40 UTC

The C language has been around for about 30(?) years and BASIC in all its forms at least 25 years

Basic is nearly twice as old as that. It was written by Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth University in the early 1960s. On the subject of Basic, in case people haven't seen it yet, Audrey Tang's Visual Basic Rocks talk is a required read.

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