[quote user="morbiuswilters"]Larry Wall then went crazy and stuffed every conceivable feature into the language spec.[/quote] Seriously. It's like some said, "Sure, the static types, revamped sigils that'll completely invalidate Perl 5 code, and macros seem like a lot, but let's...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] I wouldn't say PHP is otherwise terribly bloated, though. PHP 6 looks like it will add a few more useless features, but it's also going to come out before perl 6. [/quote] PHP 37 will probably come out before Perl 6. Hell, Duke Nukem Forever will come out...