Read the book (see the download section for rendered PDFs), write programs with rakudo, and if something's not clear to you, ask on the perl6-users@perl.org mailing list, or (preferred) ask and discuss on our IRC channel.
For deeper reading the synopsis (specification documents) are available, and the canoncial source of most Perl 6 wisdom (but not always the easiest read).
Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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For following Perl 6, its interesting to lurk on the perl6-users and perl6-language lists and watch the language being made.
Aaron Sherman is writing Perl 6 snippits for beginners on his Google buzz feed.
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Perl 6 is imo a waste of time -- it's too experimental/bleeding edge. I mean, you might be able to use it a small company, but not at most larger companies where even using Perl 5.10.x is difficult. I would take a different approach -- get your hands on the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or the equivalent CentOS, which is basically RHEL without the branding) and become familiar with whatever version of Perl they ship with along with MySQL, Apache, etc.
Update: That's going with the "make yourself more marketable" approach you indicated -- it obviously might be more fun to learn Perl 6 (or 5.10 or 5.12). Also balance that against e.g. learning more about Object-Oriented Programming, etc.
Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks
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