Back in 2000, when Perl was riding high and 13 year old, Larry Wall announced "Perl 6".
Rinding high is something of an overstatement: The Big Thing at the time was Java, and PHP was already chewing away at Perl's market share. Some people thought the writing was an the wall, hence the mug-throwing incident that launched the Perl6 effort...
Rinding high is something of an overstatement: The Big Thing at the time was Java, and PHP was already chewing away at Perl's market share. Some people thought the writing was an the wall, hence the mug-throwing incident that launched the Perl6 effort...