<i>I made a detailed study of all this last spring</i><p>I think that&#x27;s part of the problem--there are too many post-hoc justifications for why things happened the way they did that ignore what actually happened and why people made the decisions they did.<p>Dan&#x27;s Parrot postmortem is still accurate: there just wasn&#x27;t the will to turn P6 into a real, stable, shipping product, and there wasn&#x27;t the honest acknowledgement that P6 wouldn&#x27;t be a realistic replacement for Perl until far too late.