> So let me pose a rhetorical question: what is English’s target demographic? How do you even answer that? Is it tautological? I think it's a perfectly valid

> So let me pose a rhetorical question: what is English’s target demographic? How do you even answer that? Is it tautological? I think it's a perfectly valid question, and my answer is: people who live in English-speaking regions. English has pushed beyond that into business and technology, but every natural language's first and primary demographic is the geographic or cultural region in which it's spoken. The main purpose of a spoken language is to be spoken, and people can't do that if they aren't around other people who speak it. > Modern English was constructed from Middle English with various features changed to more closely represent the format of colloquial speech. That's a misleading way to phrase it. "Constructed language" is a linguistic term, and English isn't one. All of this is neither here nor there because natural languages and programming languages are almost completely different beasts. I have still not seen any examples of where a fact or process or history in one could be used to draw any valid conclusions about the other. > To answer the question more directly: Perl 6’s lack of a niche is the language’s niche. That's a direct answer? I feel like this whole FAQ is just an exercise in twisting the meaning of words.