... 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 :-

... 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-of-perl-6-and-perl-5 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.