I recently took a few years off full-time development to attend grad school, and whenever I worried about my skills getting out of date I'd tell myself, "I'll k

I recently took a few years off full-time development to attend grad school, and whenever I worried about my skills getting out of date I'd tell myself, "I'll know I've stayed too long if I'm still here when Perl 6 ships." As it turns out I've been back in full-time development for the last two years, and it still isn't ready. Perl was my "first love," but I think almost all developers who would have adopted Perl 6 have already moved on to Python or Ruby.