Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
I honestly did not expect to see the day Perl 6 gets finished. This must have been one of the most difficult - if not <i>the</i> most difficult - births in the history of programming languages.<p>At work, I have been using Perl 5 increasingly often over the past two years, mainly because handling unicode in Python 2 is not a lot of fun (and I still haven't come around to learning Python 3), and I have rediscovered why I used to like it so much.<p>So far I have not looked into Perl 6 seriously, because I did not see the point to do so before it was finished. Guess I know now what I'll be doing this Christmas. :)<p>Also, you gotta love Larry for quotes like this one: "This is why we say all languages are religious dialects of Perl 6..."