You are apparently not taking seriously anything that is being said that is critical of you. Your story above also argues for that. In fact, it says that Freshmeat is willing to publish any random half-thought-through opinion, which means that it's about as worthless as a blog.
Ok, send me a rebuttal article, or ask someone you trust to do it.
You'll find that the lack of comments on this matter is indicative of a general feeling that a rebuttal is neither needed nor interesting. So I doubt you'll find anyone to write an article dissecting Fish's. ("No one understands p6", "p6 is not backwards-compatible", "p6 is too complex" are his central arguments. Fun.)
Many of us — also not Perl gurus, CS wizards, or academians — do read and understand and enjoy the apocalypses. (Or, at least the exegeses.) And we look forward to p6 enhancing the rich world that is Perl, with all its shortcuts, nooks, crannies, and ever-evolving techniques and best practices. A more common sentiment is that we hope articles like Shlomi's do not discourage the progress of development, lest we miss out on the opportunity to embrace and explore this fantastic, and therefore necessarily ambitious, language/internals refresh.
