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Well I too would like to have Perl 6 here today but since I'm not involved in the project and it is quite active I don't think I have a say.

There was a recent thread about this somewhere which mentioned how many hours a week (a lot) were being spent on it. My impression of that thread was that they are taking time to do it right.

However I also inferred (possibly faultily) that perl foundation like grants should be made, with industry or private support, to hire some of the top people on the project to work on it full time. I seem to remember that thread saying it could be done in 6 months if fully funded, while that may have been hyperbole, surely the perl community and Perl itself would benefit from more such grants.

It seems many people want Perl 6 now, is there anybody actively soliciting funding or is this in fact such a difficult problem, and needing much discussion of design decisions, that it just can't be speeded up no matter whether money is available or not?

In reply to Re^2: What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in? by mattr
in thread What will the Perl 6 interpreter be written in? by ghenry

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