Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington

As someone who is relatively new to perl, I think perl 6 is definitely a positive direction. It removes lots of inconsistencies, while providing a clean base for future expansion. For something like the sigils, what's more important - to know that a variable is a scalar, or that it's some kind of hash/array? The second would definitely be less confusing when learning the language. There are also definitely some good things coming out of perl 6, like this [VIDEO]

You can go to [LINK] , download it, and play with it now :) I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too: [LINK] [VIDEO]

The typing and grammar mechanism aren't common, it may influence other languages. Also, Perl managed to survive even without mainstream relevance so the community will probably keep enjoying it. ps: I found this talk pretty convincing about pragmatism [LINK] also: [VIDEO]