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Lately there seems to be much more Perl articles on the front page, is there any particular reason for that? Is Perl suddenly getting more attention for some reason?

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Well, now that Parrot is doing releases above 1.0, it seems plausible that Perl 6 might actually be a finished product one day. That was in serious doubt for years.

Since, for the most part, "Perl 6" = Parrot + Rakudo [1], the big moment (IMO) will be when Rakudo hits 1.0. There should be a serious spike in interest at that point.

Hopefully the Perl community will take advantage of that spike. For example, it would be cool to see mod_perl6/mod_parrot hit stable at around the same time. Maybe even along with some key modules recoded in Perl 6 too (for webapps, maybe CGI::Application?).

[1]: Yes, I realize Perl 6 is the spec, but my guess is that Parrot + Rakudo will be the canonical implementation.

Yeah, Google Wave and Microsoft Bing were both written in Perl 6.

I can't find any references that support this. Is it a joke?

Yes. But apparently not a very good one.

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