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by chromatic 6105 days ago
> Has there been any point in time at which Perl 6 was not developing "at a rapid pace"?

Pre-2005, yes. If you care to look at the commit and spectest graphs on Rakudo.org (for example), you can see the activity levels continue to grow since December 2007.

> The entire Python 3 process has gone from idea, to preliminary implementation process, to release, and almost certainly a 3.1 release while Perl 6 has been "rapidly developing" and out at "Christmas"....

Nonsense. Guido switched jobs in spring 2000 in part to focus on Python 3000. Perl 6 wasn't even announced then.