Perl 6
Timeline: Revision 11
A chronological ordered overview of what happend so far.
* 1998 - Chip Salzenberg starts the Topaz project
* 2000 July 19 - "the coffee mug incident"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.packrats/2002/07/msg3.html>
* 2000 July 19 - [Larry Wall] announced Perl 6
* 2001 ?? Dan Sugalski began what later became [Parrot]
* 2001 April 1 - Simon Cozens launched on Perl.com his hilarious but well crafted "April's fool joke"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm>, the name "Parrot" was born
* 2001 April 2 - Larry released first "Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A01.html> (see also: [Synopses])
* 2001 May 15 - Damian Conway wrote first Exegesis: "Exegesis 2: Bits and Pieces"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E02.html>
* 2003 July - Larry was out for a year due to medical problems
* 2004 April 13 - Apocalypse 12: Objects, the last one
* 2005 February, very first days of - [Audrey Tang] came public with [Pugs]
* 2007 February 03. - First snapshot of proposed standard Perl 6 grammar in standard Perl 6 ([STD.pm])
* 2008 January 16 - Parrot's Perl 6 compiler renamed to [Rakudo] and massively rewritten
* 2008 June 9 - Allison Randal files the incorporation papers for the Parrot Foundation
* 2009 August 05 - Patrick Michaud "announces"<http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411> [Rakudo star]
* 2010 April [Rakudo star]
{image: Perl_6_timeline.png}
* 1998 - Chip Salzenberg starts the Topaz project
* 2000 July 19 - "the coffee mug incident"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.packrats/2002/07/msg3.html>
* 2000 July 19 - [Larry Wall] announced Perl 6
* 2001 ?? Dan Sugalski began what later became [Parrot]
* 2001 April 1 - Simon Cozens launched on Perl.com his hilarious but well crafted "April's fool joke"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm>, the name "Parrot" was born
* 2001 April 2 - Larry released first "Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A01.html> (see also: [Synopses])
* 2001 May 15 - Damian Conway wrote first Exegesis: "Exegesis 2: Bits and Pieces"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/exe/E02.html>
* 2003 July - Larry was out for a year due to medical problems
* 2004 April 13 - Apocalypse 12: Objects, the last one
* 2005 February, very first days of - [Audrey Tang] came public with [Pugs]
* 2007 February 03. - First snapshot of proposed standard Perl 6 grammar in standard Perl 6 ([STD.pm])
* 2008 January 16 - Parrot's Perl 6 compiler renamed to [Rakudo] and massively rewritten
* 2008 June 9 - Allison Randal files the incorporation papers for the Parrot Foundation
* 2009 August 05 - Patrick Michaud "announces"<http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39411> [Rakudo star]
* 2010 April [Rakudo star]
{image: Perl_6_timeline.png}
