sub postfix:<²>($a) { $a ** 2 };

say 2² + 4²;   # 20
sub infix:<♥>($a, $b) { "$a LOVES Perl $b" };

say 'Zoffix'♥'Perl 6'; # Zoffix LOVES Perl Perl 6

Woohoo - only 15 years in the making.
Must admit I lost interest long ago. If it ever gets to a full release I might look at it - CPAN is also an issue.

So, on the welcome page it states that Perl 6 is Perl 5's little sister ... does this mean it will do less?

Wikipedia says that it's not really backward compatible with Perl 5.

Probably a good design decision, but I've heard "Perl is backward compatible and therefore BETTER THAN PYTHON" too many times here.

The biggest problem with "Perl 6," IMHO, is that it is not "Perl."

If it were "Perl," then it would be backward-compatible, and CPAN (that vast library consisting of "155,158 modules" at the present time) would be usable with it.

Instead, it is ... yet-another all-new language. One that is merely coat-tailing on the name of its erstwhile predecessor, with which it shares little (if any) actual genetic material.

What I think that the designers never realized, is that no one is particularly interested in "Perl." But they are interested in "CPAN," and that's why they are interested in Perl. (Ditto the Ruby language, and its Gems. Python ... the list goes on.)

CPAN represents the product of tens of millions of dollars' worth of human effort, now free for the taking. Removed from it, Perl6 (sic) is a brand-new baby with not one single pair of diapers.

Language designers, e.g. the Python community, PHP, etc., are discovering that it is very hard to change a language once it has entered the main stream: because of these contributed source-code libraries, and because the vast amount of production source-code (worth millions of dollars) that a company has already written in that language. It really does not matter that your new language is "-er," if it breaks what I've already got. If you cannot guarantee that it will not break what I've already got . . .

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Perl 5 will get all the blame, no doubt.

yes, yet another perishing programming language.

we'll all have one each soon.

When is perl 7 coming out?

6 is jaw-dropping, a.k.a. big yawn.

I no longer write much in perl. But I do still use perl one-liners often.

Recently was looking at nodejs and the npm tool output is retarded so perl one-liner to the rescue.

npm search pumpkin|perl -lane 'm|^(\S+)(\s+)(.+)?(=\w+)(\s+)([\d-]+)(\s+)(.+)$|;if($1 and $2 and $3 and $4 and $5 and $6 and $7 and $8){print "$6 $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $7 $8"}'

Don't get me started on npm.

Tell me....
how do you feel about npm?