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After 15 years of development, perl 6 will be officially launched as production ready software in 2015.
https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/get_ready_to_party/
Who knows, 2015 may also be the year of the linux desktop, unless HURD is also ready for prime time.
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Fortune finishes the great quotations, #2
If at first you don't succeed, think how many people
you've made happy.
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Saturday November 08 2014, @02:09PM
This is what has happened to many open source projects after they've effectively finished their original product.
"What shall we do now?"
"I know, let's be everything to everybody!"
A few years ago (was it a decade?) I saw a post on a Perl 6 discussion group that if they made it abstract enough they could just switch out one syntax grammar for another and then, why "Perl could even interpret JavaScript!"
I understand why Microsoft makes pointless changes every couple years -- they've run out of suckers to pay for something that is essentially free to produce after the first copy, so now they need those same suckers to pay again. But open source devs: you don't have to copy everything Microsoft does. There should come a point where your software is done, except maybe for bug fixes and future interoperability issues. So just stop already. Software doesn't need to be an endlessly moving target. You're not going to finally get a girl if you just change the font or the background color one more time!