Perl 6 didn't evolve, they threw away most of Perl 5....

Untrue. The apocalypses have always been deltas against Perl 5.

Promises of the money founded Perl 6 community weren't and couldn't be delivered after 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and finally 8 years of money founded development.

How much money? Do you know? (I'll tell you this -- all of the money that's gone into Parrot, Pugs, Perl 6, Rakudo, SMOP, Elf, and whatever else in the past eight years couldn't buy you one year of the time spent on the JVM or the CLR. You might be able to pay for the coffee breaks of all of the developers of either system.)

So remember that this is just one view, and mostly from the outside, of the state of affairs.

That amuses me. It's not as if we're some secret cabal who meets in shadowy, dark rooms to cackle and drink brandy and smoke big cigars and plot the future. There are eight freakin' years of email you could dig through to find out what's happened. I've published design minutes from weekly Perl 6 meetings for years. There's no super-secret initiation ceremony into the hidden mysteries of Perl 6. All you have to do to become part of the secret shadowy cabal of volunteer community members developing Perl 6 is ask a question on IRC or a mailing list, submit a patch, write a test, report test results, point out a typo in the documentation, or a dozen other very small tiny things. I'm not sure how we could make that easier, other than kidnapping you and tying your hands to the keyboard.

I just don't get why it's easier to speculate about things from a perspective you admit is flawed, especially when it's so simple to get a better perspective.

In reply to Re^2: How much is Perl 6 the community rewrite of Perl? by chromatic
in thread How much is Perl6 the community rewrite of Perl? by zby

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