Re^2: What's wrong with Perl 6?

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"Perl 6 is vaporware because the design keeps changing and will never be finished. Will Perl 6 be bootstrapped so that mere mortals can contribute to the source or won't it?"

fglock and audrey have worked on a mini-perl6 specification, mp6, which has already been bootstrapped: mp6 is written in mp6.

"How can I contribute. I don't know C so I can't help out with Parrot. I don't know Haskell so I can't help out with Pugs."

fglock has also written v6.pm, which is a perl6 implementation written in perl5. You can help to improve it with your perl5 knowledge.

And you can start now:

cpan> install v6

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nferraz,
I think you misunderstand the intent of duff's post. He was soliciting a list of objections to Perl 6 so that they can be addressed by TimToady and crew. I have been following Perl 6, Parrot, and Pugs for years. Those objections are not my own but rather objections I have heard others make over the years.

I will be looking forward to a follow-up by duff with the "official" rebuttals.

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I think you misunderstood my intent. :-)
I was contributing with my own rebuttals. :-)