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by mj41 3871 days ago
... instead of splintering and delaying the adoption of the language like the many failed partial Perl 6 implementations did.

I'm historian of Perl 6, a bit :-). http://www.slideshare.net/michaljurosz1/perl-family-15-years...

Open source, volunteers, real life, ecosystem, not easy to implement so feature rich language, ... this wasn't planned.