I think that's what happened to Perl 6, too many cooks in the kitchen.,(reply>), @Rajeev Gangal I think Programming Perl was the first programming book I had ever even seen in about 1995. I thought it was so cool, and that's before I ever even became a programmer. I really wanted to program in Perl 6, but development just drug on forever.,(reply>), I was devastated when it remained at Perl 5.8.9 or something and then had to jump to python to remain relevant