On Jan 28, 9:34 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:21:05 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote: > > Perl 6, on the other hand, is still fantasyware a decade after its > > announcement. It is, for the most part, THE canonical example of the > > wrong way to conduct a development effort. > > Out of curiosity, and completely off-topic, why has Perl 6 gone so badly?
Because Larry Wall saw the writing on the wall that his "nice little scripting language" was way out of its league in terms of what it was trying to be (i.e., a real programming language suitable for building applications), and so he bailed out and left the Perl community with no leadership. This is just my impression, but some of the efforts to create Perl 6 seem to be clinging to a notion that Perl has always been a good language and are trying to ensure that it doesn't stray very far from Perl's core principles. Problem is, Perl wasn't ever a good language so they won't succeed. IOW, as Geremy Condra said, "it's too much like Perl". Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list