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Is perl 6 now officially the Duke Nukem Forever of lightweight languages?

• fennecfoxen 12y ago
  Could be! I recall it being unofficially "Duke Nukem Forever" as early as 2010: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3367226/240438 http://stackoverflow.com/q/3367226/240438
• ggchappell 12y ago
  Getting there. DNF took 15 years. Perl 6 will surpass that if we don't get a real release in 2015. But the real champions for delayed development are LaTeX 3 at something like 20 years & counting, and the GNU Hurd at 24 years & counting.
  • vezzy-fnord 12y ago
    The most protracted piece of vaporware in history is actually Project Xanadu, at a whopping 54 years.
    • gpvos 12y ago
      Is someone actually still working on that?
      • vezzy-fnord 12y ago
        Yes. In fact, OpenXanadu was unveiled this year: http://xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html http://xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html That said, it's mostly just a web reimplementation of the incomplete 1998 Udanax client.