reading the perl6 monthly logs perl seemed to stay true to it's swiss army chainsaw philosophy. it almost looked like almost every programming language feature

reading the perl6 monthly logs perl seemed to stay true to it's swiss army chainsaw philosophy. it almost looked like almost every programming language feature you would think of would eventually end up in perl. ofc this was the idea i got a couple years back. but read kbd's comment below or the mailing someone else posted. http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2013-February/007333.html http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2013-February/0... parrot was to be the perl6 vm, but that never happened. it become too much at the same time so they tried to fork off parrot: > However, even if you remove the baggage and optimize for Rakudo (or rather NQP) integration, Perl6-on-Parrot will still be a 2nd-class citizen as long as no one replaces the PMC-based object system with 6model, which is imo a major undertaking; it might be easier to restart from scratch and fix other 'mistakes' along the way. That's where Parrot2 comes in so no i don't think perl 6 is ready for production. that said, i thought it was it a cool language. even though i'm not sure if there was a clear direction of where it was going.