The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much done once > Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are finished. Of course, > the devil is in the details, but I don't doubt that the hoped for > existence of a working Perl6::Rules by the end of April is going to > provide us with a great deal of the leverage we need to get a working > Perl 6 alpha ready for OSCON with something rather more solid ready by > the end of the year. Parrot continues to amaze and delight with its > progress; Dan tells me that he's about ready to roll out a large parrot > based application for his employers, so it's approaching the point where > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full > implementation of at least one of the big non-Perl scripting languages > on top of Parrot.
I'm confused, are you optimistic or pessimistic in that last sentence? -- Lars Balker Rasmussen Consult::Perl