<i>... instead of splintering and delaying the adoption of the language like the many failed partial Perl 6 implementations did.</i><p>I&#x27;m historian of Perl 6, a bit :-). <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;michaljurosz1&#x2F;perl-family-15-years-of-perl-6-and-perl-5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;michaljurosz1&#x2F;perl-family-15-years...</a><p>Open source, volunteers, real life, ecosystem, not easy to implement so feature rich language, ... this wasn&#x27;t planned.