Hmmm, evidently I made my point poorly. All I was getting that is that Perl is a pretty cool language that runs the risk of becoming an obscure language becaus

Hmmm, evidently I made my point poorly. All I was getting that is that Perl is a pretty cool language that runs the risk of becoming an obscure language because progress on it has the appearance of moving so slowly. For whatever it's worth, I don't think that it really is moving all that slowly, but Perl 6 was announced almost a decade ago (2001) and it has all the appearances of being a pretty bureaucratic process. I know there are a ton of really sharp people working on it... just like there are a lot of sharp people working on CL. Until they get their PR house in order though, I honestly think that Perl will go the way of CL.