note spx2 <blockquote>Microsoft still hasn't implemented C99 in Visual Studio, though I suspect that's not a question of resources at this point</blockquote> <p>yeah, presumably they've been busy pushing C++0x out...</p> <blockquote> Look at how long it's taken projects like IronPython and IronRuby and JRuby to implement languages already implemented elsewhere (and with actual funding and full-time developers) </blockquote> <p>yeah but those people already had a virtual machine while Perl 6 is trying to build the language and the VM at the same time. I think that's a bit hard.</p> <blockquote> Python 3000 took eight and a half years from conception to its 3.0 release, and its changes were relatively minor. </blockquote> <p>Yeah but they finished the damn thing.</p> 835419 835731