There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
