Perl5.10.0 is under development;

Well, technically it is, but it's crawling along. 5.8.0 was released a year and a half ago, and the road towards 5.10.0 was started soon afterwards. Hugo, the pumpking had some big plans for 5.10 - but I don't get the impression any work has been done on it. Do you know the current goals for 5.10, and how much of it has been done for it? Have you heard any target date for 5.10? How many patches have you seen the pumpking apply the last year? How many patches have you seen submitted recently? By how many people?

As for perl6, we're now 3.5 years down the road and it's almost a year ago since the last apocalypse was released.

Sure, the 5.8.x track has a 3-month release schedule. But those are maintainance releases.

Perl development hasn't stopped - but it isn't bursting either. There are only a few contributers. I can't blame outsiders from thinking Perl is hardly being developped. We all like to chant that development of open source goes faster proprietairy software. But that doesn't seem to be the case for Perl.

Abigail

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