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    1. COWhile there will be a translator, I doubt it will be good enough to reliably translate a large production system. I have no idea how they'll handle XS, which is poorly understood, tested and documented as it is. The more reliable approaches employ the existing Perl 5 interpreter. Either Perl 5 is embedded in Perl 6 or Perl 6 is translated to Perl 5 (aka 6on5). AFAIK all three approaches are being pushed forward.
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    2. COI don't know who you're quoting in your first sentence. Larry Wall floated the idea of an overhaul of the Perl language in 2000 at a conference and began accepting RFC's for the specification then, but tangible development of any serious implementation didn't begin until around 5 years later. The difference might be semantic but Rakudo hasn't been in development for a decade, and from thinking so or failing to note the distinction one would draw the wrong conclusions about the rate of its progress.
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    3. CO**@cikkle:** do auto-quotes count? :) -- You are correct though, the language was announced in 2000 and Larry started accepting and grouping RFCs then. I think Masak's historical account is close to accurate (http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/40451). Like you, he gives 2005 as the magical date that things started, but really there was some push in late 2002, up to that point. Still, it's been a lonnnng time to develop an already mature language, even if most of it was rewritten. FYI, a little unrelated cool look at Perl's history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9HVEJl_-w
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