It's that time of year, Larry Wall has put up his annual thoughts on the state of Perl. This time Wall takes a quite interesting, humorous and thoroughly biased tour through the history of scripting languages.
That may well be the best analogy of programming languages we've ever read, but it doesn't answer the essential question of Perl 6 — where is it?
As one commenter on the Slashdot post quips “every year Larry talks about what interesting things have been going on with Perl 6. These interesting things never include ‘release.'”
While Wall's musing are funny and worth a read, even if you're a biased Python fan like me, you can't help but notice that there's absolutely no mention of when Perl 6 might see the light of day.
Frankly the only thing saving Perl 6 from our vaporware awards list is that there's never been an official release date. Of course that's not meant to slight the Perl 6 community, which is working very hard on getting the next version of Perl in a stable, feature complete form, but the question remains — when?
