*sigh* Where did that "ten minutes" number come from? It takes a lot longer than that just to read and absorb a single Apocalypse. I read as many as I could for a long time, and tried to work out what they all meant behind all the fluff and ambiguities. They are, or were, riddled with the words "perhaps", "maybe", "might", and "could be". I didn't know then, and I don't know know, what features would make it into the final cut.

Eventually, I gave up. I realized that the details of the Perl 6 language specifiction were still in flux, so I waited for the designers to make up their minds, and produce a clear vision of exactly what it was that I'd be building, if I decided to get onboard and help them build it.

I never found one. Eventually, I stopped looking for one. From the complaints I'm hearing now, it sounds like there never was one.

All through the years, the hype continued. The "ten minutes of your time" thing is just more hype: you and I both know it takes more than ten minutes to do anything even remotely productive. People are saying: "Perl 6 is ready now", "you can run Perl 6 programs under Perl 5 today", and stuff like that; but I still haven't seen the language documentation. To me, that means nothing's really been settled yet, and the whole thread seems to bear that out.

Perhaps, some people can stand working like that. Maybe they're colledge kids who grasp at any chance to write throw-away code for the fund of coding something. Me, I do far too many pointless re-writes thanks to shifting requirements at work; the only thing worse than wasting my time for pay is wasting my time for free.

Go ahead -- build Perl 6 however you want. Just stop trying to recruit me... I've burnt out on all the hype.