So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;) Examples:

So, floating point safesness is in R, dsl in ruby, concurency in Go and Unicode in... ? What if you want two features at once ? Or all of them ? ;) Examples: multi wins(Scissors $, Paper $) { +1 }; # dispatch on types my @a = 1..5; say [+] @a; # 15 (a,b,c) Z (1,2,3) # ((a,1),(b,2),(c,3)) my $time = now; say now - $time; class Person does Employee { } use NativeCall; # WOW and MORE ! So ansering: why Perl6 hasn't taken off yet ? Becouse language specification was released 11 month ago with referential implementation (just like Amaya in 1996). So give it 2 years, it will be "fully operational" ;)