I was wondering if there was an up-to-date graph somewhere. P.S. despite the various ignorant comments, there are some people excited about Perl 6. Thanks for your hard work!

Complaining about the long wait for Perl 6 is so 2003!

In the mean time the core Perl developers have been busy designing and building the programming language (and runtime environment) of the future.

2009 is the year to start getting excited about Perl 6 again!

For anyone paying attention, things have been really starting to come together in the last year.
- Parrot is nearing 1.0 production release (in March 2009)!
- Perl 6 on Parrot (Rakudo) works and gets new features added every day (see recent note saying "now passing 765 more tests than two weeks ago")

There is nothing dead about Perl 6 apart from public opinion (which will change).

TPF grants just reinforce the commitment that is there to push ahead with the vision that is Perl.

Most people may have abandoned Perl for more fashionable languages at the moment, but when there is a shiny new Perl 6, the crowds will return (and Ruby will be looking quite old-skool).

I predict that the extra effort that has gone into designing Perl 6 will pay dividends 10 fold, with the language being a major player for the next 50 year (instead of 5).

Go Perl 6 !!!

This is the kind of problem I always run into, websites, databases, you name it.

It would be great to be given a comprehensive and accurate spec for development, but in my experience it just doesn't happen! Maybe if your working for some large development company - where it is someone else's job to develop such a specification, you may be lucky enough to experience such bliss, but elsewhere you can just forget it.

More and more I am learning that it is just easier to do everything as best you can, using your own judgement, doing all the information gathering yourself. If what you do is not what is wanted, then just make the changes. It might suck, but that's how it goes.