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Re:Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive by sampo on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:38AM (#6205591)
"Yes, Perl6 was announced in 2000, but the actual implementation effort (both Parrot and Pugs) started in 2005."

But if we believe in the Osborne effect, then already from 2000 the announcement of Perl 6 started to eat momentum from Perl 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

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Re:Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive by bane on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:46AM (#6206029)
Exactly. The early announcements, the O'Reilly book etc. all combined to make me want to stop Perl 5 work and wait a bit for Perl 6 to come out.

I was fully expecting to sit down at a machine and type "perl6" instead of "perl" to invoke early versions of the language. I was even willing to deal with semantics changes in the language for a while till that settled down.

But 5 years is a long time to wait before implementation even started and 13 years is even worse and still not really be able to sit down at a terminal and "perl6 -v".

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Re:Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive by lelf on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @01:47PM (#6207096)
> and still not really be able to sit down at a terminal and "perl6 -v".

Wait, that's not entirely true

  Betty:~ lelf$ perl6 -v
  This is perl6 version 2013.06-200-gee08521 built on parrot 5.5.0 revision RELEASE_5_5_0
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Re:Perl 5.18.1. Yes, it's alive by bane on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:06PM (#6207595)
well...okay. Now that gets my juices flowing.
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