Re^2: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!

[chromatic]

And [Perl 6] is of course the future of perl...

It's been the future for eleven and a half years. The only concrete thing you can really say about it these days is that it'll continue to be the future for the foreseeable future.

I think too big ambition of parrot authors has delayed its coming.

More like several years of no runnable Perl 6 implementation to guide the evolution of Parrot followed by several years of perpetual rewrites of the existing Perl 6 implementations.

sooner they focus on...

Neither volunteer effort nor volunteer interest is fungible.

[Anonymous Monk]

What is like the worst case ETA for production ready Perl 6?

[chromatic]

Worst case, never. More likely case, several more years.