PEperlgeek·Jan 18, 2015
> And Perl 6? Fourteen years and nothing to show for it
... except a nearly feature-complete [1] compiler [2] and an impressive test suite [3]
[1] http://perl6.org/compilers/features
[2] http://rakudo.org/
[3] https://github.com/perl6/roast/
> and it'll have to be backwards compatible to all the things violently wrong with Perl 5
Not at all. The whole point about Perl 6 is that it breaks backwards compatibility to fix the things that are wrong with Perl 5.
In Why Perl Didn't Win