On: The Joy of Perl (1998)

[jlg23]

Which does it offer that are not covered by ruby, python or CL?

I am fluent in a lot of languages and cannot really imagine anything that could motivate me to upgrade my perl5 black belt to perl6 except for a well-paid gig that requires it.

[lizmat → jlg23]

Better Unicode support and async/parallel processing primitives that don't depend on a GIL, are the first things that come up.