Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Steffen Schwigon
"Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" writes: > Maybe we should focus on porting Perl 5 modules With the current size of CPAN this is IMHO not the way to go. A Perl5 embedding interface is more promising. Pugs had that in a not perfect but usable state. Not sure about Rakudo. An embedded Perl5 in Rakudo

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Daniel Carrera writes: > If they are critics to begin with, the size of the test suite will > not impress them. They could just as well conclude that Perl 6 must > have a million corner cases and gotchas that have to be tested. I > have never seen a language review that I thought was worth reading

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Wendell Hatcher writes: > My point is make it a production release so peeps can push it to the > powers that be in the corporate world. Valid point. Will http://packages.debian.org/experimental/rakudo be continued? > This has been the longest production build in test in the history of > mankind

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 14:53 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> I would be very interested to see something that allowed Rakudo to >> talk to Fortran 95. >> >> I am going to use Fortran 95 for my thesis work, and maybe I could >> write a module to g

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Thu, 2011-06-01 at 14:53 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > I would be very interested to see something that allowed Rakudo to > talk to Fortran 95. > > I am going to use Fortran 95 for my thesis work, and maybe I could > write a module to give Rakudo a basic array language. Nothing fancy Is there

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
I would be very interested to see something that allowed Rakudo to talk to Fortran 95. I am going to use Fortran 95 for my thesis work, and maybe I could write a module to give Rakudo a basic array language. Nothing fancy like MATLAB, NumPy or PDL, but enough to try out algorithms and prototype id

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-06 Thread Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
On 01/05/2011 02:51 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: Let me just give a probably totally irrelevant comment here. I think most of the open source projects have been in use by many people in production environment before the project had a "production release". I guess there are still places that think Linux

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Gabor Szabo
Let me just give a probably totally irrelevant comment here. I think most of the open source projects have been in use by many people in production environment before the project had a "production release". I guess there are still places that think Linux is not good for their production environment

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 21:04 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Guy, > > Your idea is actually exactly what I was suggesting when I said > 'example > programs'. What convinced me that rakudo is worth pursuing was the 3-line dice class with a roll() method. What I do now is 'use fields' and build

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 20:51 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > 'serious project' ??? > > For some 'serious' people, Perl6 is a 'serious project'. Concepts of > 'serious' differ amongst reasonable people. Not a problem if your > 'serious' aint my 'serious'. For programming languages, there are

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Guy, Your idea is actually exactly what I was suggesting when I said 'example programs'. I think there are/were perl6 versions for the shootout problems. I am not sure what happened to them. Getting benchmarking will be interesting. Regards, Richard On 01/05/11 20:15, Guy Hulbert wrote:

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
'serious project' ??? For some 'serious' people, Perl6 is a 'serious project'. Concepts of 'serious' differ amongst reasonable people. Not a problem if your 'serious' aint my 'serious'. As an aside, it took 358 years to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Wiles - who proved it - shut himself away f

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > From what Larry has already said, I dont think he ever will say the Perl 6 > spec is ready. The spec and the language are evolving together. That is what > the waterfall and attractor stuff was all about. Not relevant. The question is wh

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 10:24 -0700, Wendell Hatcher wrote: > I have to agree I don't think this is a serious project. In-fact at > this point it seems like a bunch of friends working on a hobby in > their basement. I'm not sure I said anything to agree with. You seem to misinterpret my intention.

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Wendell Hatcher
I have to agree I don't think this is a serious project. In-fact at this point it seems like a bunch of friends working on a hobby in their basement. Sent from my iPhone Wendell Hatcher wendell_hatc...@comcast.net 303-520-7554 Blogsite: http://thoughtsofaperlprogrammer.typepad.com/blog On Jan

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 01/05/11 19:48, Daniel Carrera wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: It is blindingly obvious that the majority of language users, ..., will only start to use a language when it is recommended by 'those in authority'... I think the issue of a version number is i

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:30, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > > Rakudo is not listed here: > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > > Fixing that is something I'd like to help with. > > > > Note that go was listed *before* it was announced. That

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Wendell Hatcher
, at 6:13 AM, "Anderson, Jim" >> wrote: >> >>> Hear! Hear! >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarr...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:15 AM >>> To: Richard Hainsw

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:30, Guy Hulbert wrote: > Rakudo is not listed here: > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > Fixing that is something I'd like to help with. > > Note that go was listed *before* it was announced. That tells me that > the go authors are, in some small way, more serious abo

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > It is blindingly obvious that the majority of language users, ..., will only > start to use a language > when it is recommended by 'those in authority'... > > I think the issue of a version number is irrelevant 1) You have more or less

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
! Hear! -Original Message- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:15 AM To: Richard Hainsworth Cc: perl6-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl Although everything you said is technically true, I

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 19:05 +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > It seems you may have concluded something not intended. I was unsurprised at the reaction to your post. [snip] > I think the issue of a version number is irrelevant, given the vested Clearly you were wrong. [snip] > For my part, I

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
essage- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:15 AM To: Richard Hainsworth Cc: perl6-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl Although everything you said is technically true, I must point out that wit

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Wendell Hatcher
erl.org > Subject: Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl > > Although everything you said is technically true, I must point out > that without a definitive release, potential users will tend to avoid > the software. For people not involved in the process (i.e

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Anderson, Jim wrote: > Hear! Hear! Uhmm... sorry if I looked angry or whatever. Email is at times a poor medium of communication because you lose details like tone of voice and body language. I just wanted to highlight something that I think is relevant to anyone wh

RE: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Anderson, Jim
Hear! Hear! -Original Message- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:15 AM To: Richard Hainsworth Cc: perl6-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl Although everything you said is technically

Re: Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
Although everything you said is technically true, I must point out that without a definitive release, potential users will tend to avoid the software. For people not involved in the process (i.e. 99.995% of Perl users) it is impossible to know when the software is good enough for use. You may talk

Production Release - was Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Hainsworth
So I'd change that to "after a production release of a Perl 6 compiler" Out of curiosity (because I think it will illuminate some of the difficulty Rakudo devs have in declaring something to be a "production release"): - What constitues a "production release"? - What was the first prod

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> So I'd change that to "after a production release of a Perl 6 compiler" > > I think I'll include both answers. > If we learn that people desperately need a 1.0 numbering then the > Rakudo developers > can make up their mind to either change the

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I think it largely depends on who do you ask and I believe there will > be a huge gap between private people and company people. Or between > people who are involved in open source development and in-house developers. I don't see the open sour

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: >> I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before >> they >> start using Perl 6. >> >> There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just Rakudo. I'm afraid of >> Raku

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On 01/01/2011 10:15 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> So for example: >> >> I'll start learning Perl 6  (select one or more that fits your opinion) >> *) when Larry Wall declares that Perl 6.0 is ready >> *) after Rakudo 1.0 is released > > Given the cu

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:53:17PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> >> > Given the current version number scheme (year.month), it's highly >> > unlikely that we'll ever see a Rakudo 1

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 22:30 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >> Thanks. Found that already. It does not list the questions asked and I > >> can't figure out how to download the PDF report or to clone the > >> repository it's in on github. Jan Involdstadt suggested I look at TPF website and following

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
(a mistakenly private exchange back to the list) On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 21:51 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: >>> > >>> > I'm not sure wha

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: > I think freezing a subset of what you eventually want to have and then > getting as close as you can on a fairly tight schedule is the best way > to get buy-in from users. That is generally what I expect to see in a production release, yes. I d

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > Out of curiosity (because I think it will illuminate some of the difficulty > Rakudo devs have in declaring something to be a "production release"): > >  - What constitues a "production release"? The developers judge that the software is

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > I'm not sure what 'TPF survey' is. http://survey.perlfoundation.org/ Gabor

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 20:10 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > It does not, however, answer any of the question_s_ I wanted asked, and > which others have wanted asked, not even partially. I haven't seen any such requests from you on this thread. Is this discussion happening elsewhere as well ? >

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 19:02, Guy Hulbert wrote: > Many people seem to be proposing questions which ask people's opinions > of things which are factual and can be answered readily by reading the > documentation. > > For example, your question can be partly answered by looking at the > rakudo down

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 18:45 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > You guys stopped discussing the questionnaire a LONG time before PM > answered. There has hardly been a handful of helpful posts. That's what I said and that was my first post. > > > Getting back on topic, I, for one, would like to kn

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:05, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > - What was the first production release of Linux? > > - At what point was each of the above decl

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:33, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 18:25 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > > At least have the decency to change the e-mail subject when the > > discussion's > > subject has changed! > > IMO, the subject changed at the second post. I was just responding to P >

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 18:25 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > At least have the decency to change the e-mail subject when the > discussion's > subject has changed! IMO, the subject changed at the second post. I was just responding to P Michaud who is the current principal developer of the s/w bein

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:05, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > - What was the first production release of Linux? > > - At what point was each of the above declared a "production > > release"; > > was it concurrent with the release, or s

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > - What was the first production release of Linux? > - At what point was each of the above declared a "production > release"; > was it concurrent with the release, or some time afterwards? Linus declared what his goals for 1.0 w

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:53:17PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > > > Given the current version number scheme (year.month), it's highly > > unlikely that we'll ever see a Rakudo 1.0. > > > > So I'd change that to "after a production release of

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-01 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Given the current version number scheme (year.month), it's highly > unlikely that we'll ever see a Rakudo 1.0. > > So I'd change that to "after a production release of a Perl 6 compiler" People might be expecting that when Rakudo is ready it

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 01/01/2011 10:15 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > It would be nice to figure out what is the percentage of people who > don't yet look at Perl 6 because there was not official Perl 6.0 > release > or in more general what are the blocking issues for them. > I just would like to make sure that by asking t

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-01 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > It would be nice to figure out what is the percentage of people who > don't yet look at Perl 6 because there was not official Perl 6.0 > release or in more general what are the blocking issues for them. > I just would like to make sure that by

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > > On 01/01/11 03:41, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Chas. Owens  wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian  wrote: I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-01 Thread Darren Duncan
Richard Hainsworth wrote: Moreover, a survey should be testing perceptions, even if the perceptions contradict what some feel are facts. It sometimes pays to be agnostic about what can be counted as a fact to learn how other people think. Eg., in the real world there are those who perceive as f

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 01/01/11 03:41, Daniel Carrera wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before they start using Perl 6. There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: >> I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before >> they >> start using Perl 6. >> >> There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just Rakudo. I'm afraid of >> Raku

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 21:39, Xue, Brian wrote: > I want to adding one more answer about what are people waiting for before they > start using Perl 6. > > There hasn't an official release of PERL6.0, just Rakudo. I'm afraid of > Rakudo is cancelled, I don't want to make my product based on an un

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Carrera of "Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:20:33 +0100." > For amusement, below I include the same program > in FORTRAN II and Fortran 90. That was delightful -- thanks! --tom

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:02, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> We will have questions about usage of Perl 5 and we think there should >> be also questions >> about Perl 6. > > Should Perl 6 be called something else? >   * No >   * Yes, not sure what

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-31 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:02, Gabor Szabo wrote: > We will have questions about usage of Perl 5 and we think there should > be also questions > about Perl 6. Should Perl 6 be called something else? * No * Yes, not sure what * Yes, [] Maybe a question on perceived benefits for an al

RE: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-30 Thread Xue, Brian
ssage- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:25 PM To: Gabor Szabo Cc: Richard Hainsworth; perl6-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Questions for Survey about Perl On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > So in relation to what Kathe

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Why use Perl 6 at this time what are the benefits besides what it has done (Moose-declare) object oriented programming for Perl 5? Sent from my iPhone Wendell Hatcher wendell_hatc...@comcast.net 303-520-7554 Blogsite: http://thoughtsofaperlprogrammer.typepad.com/blog On Dec 29, 2010, at 12:02

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 09:03, Moritz Lenz wrote: snip > What do you think about the relation between 5 and 6 >  * I don't >  * Perl 6 hurts Perl 5 >  * Perl 5 benefits from Perl 5 >  * The two are mostly independent snip As for the third option, I think Perl 5 is hurt by Perl 5, but benefits fro

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, On 12/29/2010 08:02 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I'd be happy to get your input on how else would you put this question or > what possible other answers you would allow. Here are some very rough ideas: How much do you know about Perl 6? * nothing except the name * some design ideas or history

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > So in relation to what Katherine wrote earlier we should have a > question trying to figure out what are people waiting for before they > start using Perl 6. That's an excellent question. Possible answers: * I'm waiting for a specific featu

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Gabor, > > there is a big gap between 'i wrote snippets' to 'i wrote modules'. How > about 'i have written programs to solve real problems' ? I agree. Although I don't use Perl 6 in production yet, for Perl 5 I can say that I've never

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Gabor, > > there is a big gap between 'i wrote snippets' to 'i wrote modules'. How > about 'i have written programs to solve real problems' ? > > How about a question on involvement in the perl6 development process, so as > to see how m

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2010-12-29 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Gabor, there is a big gap between 'i wrote snippets' to 'i wrote modules'. How about 'i have written programs to solve real problems' ? How about a question on involvement in the perl6 development process, so as to see how many people are following the process passively, and how many are con