[CodeWriter23]

I started calling it out as vaporware around the Holidays 2001. I would be shouted down by certain zealots who would tell me code (pre-Alpha quality) was available for use right now.

At least there are people maintaining Perl 5 at this point.

[ugexe]

There are commits to Rakudo, a Perl 6 compiler, every day. It's also scheduled to be production ready by the end of 2015.

[cturner]

You might be right. But I have been reading forum posts to this effect for fifteen years, and eventually eveyone switches off. Even if you are right, would you trust your career focus to a software community who had got it this wrong for that long? I am looking forward to checking out a future perl 6 but part of that is now duke nukem forever curiosity - what on earth could be in it that kept those smart people at it for that long?

[pwr22]

Hmmm, they've never committed to a deadline or even tried to aim for a production release before this time, so it may turn out better than you'd expect

[chromatic]

they've never committed to a deadline

Baloney.

[pwr22]

Sorry, I didn't know was much as I thought I did