There are already a couple of working compilers for Perl6, granted they are not fully feature complete yet, but then Perl6 is being written for free by dozens if not hundreds of volunteers. It doesn't have a multi-billion dollar enterprise backing it up and paying top dollar for programmer talent and time.

Your comments sound so ungrateful they verge on ridiculous.

Also you make absolutist claims like "no one has a clue what it can do"... speak for yourself why don't you? There are plenty of people who do have plenty of clue as to what Perl6 is about and why Perl5 can never efficiently emulate Perl6, no matter how clever the people trying to make it do so are.

No one is suggesting you wait for Perl6, Perl5 is right there ready for you to use right now, and when 6 is ready it will be included in whatever distros are out at that point. The Perl6 team are certainly not fools for giving their time engineering it. Eventually naysayers to Perl6 like you will look as foolish as the naysayers to my system have already been proven to be.

This is not conjecture, this is solid fact. Perl5 has been a sturdy servant and will be for some time yet, but at the end of the day it's time is fast running out and it will have to go to make room for the new paradigm of Perl6.