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I have never heard that the Perl 6 developers are teenagers.

The important point of JWZ's article isn't "teenagers". It's "rewriting everything from scratch... happens, over and over again". For example, Rakudo's current "Great List Refactor": http://pmthium.com/2014/10/apw2014/

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I've read it, it's not "rewriting" for the sake of it, they actually significantly change the behaviour too. What I never understood was why people believed that the Parrot VM had to be made.

Apart from maybe Guile, there was no really solid, cross-platform VM with a compatible license suitable for Unix interoperability and the dynamic features Perl needs. Lua would only later be a reasonable contender.

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