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in reply to Perl 6 and performance
Every "programming language that has been around for a while" has to cope with irrelevance ... and Perl-6 is at that point now. The language reached its true zenith with Perl-5, and a group of well-meaning people tried to produce something better while at the same trying to bootstrap on top of what territory Perl-5 had already mastered. But, what they have managed to come up with is ... ADD 1 TO PERL GIVING PERL. It truly has nothing to do with "Perl," in the same way that "object-oriented COBOL" has nothing to do with COBOL. And, during the many years that Perl-6 has foundered in the birthing stage, the river has moved on. Programming languages, even good ones, aren't that hard to make anymore. They don't attract the following that they once did. They do not have the "single target" that they used to. Even if Perl-6 does make it to a deliverable, it will not attract the interest that its erstwhile predecessor has earned.
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