I had a similar experience. It was so disappointing to watch them bike shed Perl 6 endlessly while Python was gradually taking over.
Even as a die-hard mod_perl fan, I never even tried Perl 6. The language had gone from the most concise and efficient way to process text streams to an incredibly complex OOP language that for some reason had an experimental Haskell implementation, its own custom VM and multiple compilers.
Even as a die-hard mod_perl fan, I never even tried Perl 6. The language had gone from the most concise and efficient way to process text streams to an incredibly complex OOP language that for some reason had an experimental Haskell implementation, its own custom VM and multiple compilers.