There is a definite set of specifics that will matter to a large number of businesses e.g.
- a MySQL driver
- parsers and generators for XML and JSON
- a web application framework
- a logging framework
- a socket framework
- an HTTP client
- documentation
(in addition to these my business would need clients for FTP and NNTP)
I think it's not unreasonable to equate the readiness of Perl 6 with the availability of such specifics (certainly myself and many others won't be able consider Perl 6 as a viable development platform until such items are available).
