Indeed, when I first heard about Perl 6 so long ago, it seemed to be trying to remove some of the most quirky, but also most useful features of Perl 5. I more o

Indeed, when I first heard about Perl 6 so long ago, it seemed to be trying to remove some of the most quirky, but also most useful features of Perl 5. I more or less immediately decided to ignore it, so I haven't followed what's been going on since apart from being secretly pleased that it has never really shown up.