Perl 6 Is Separate from All, Replacement for None

I've been looking at Perl6 over the last couple of weeks. The most recent O'Reilly books are about a decade old. A lot of the other material, and there is a surprising amount (e.g. the Advent Calendars) also was written during Perl6's long gestation.

My conclusions:

1. There's relatively little that doesn't assume familiarity with Perl5, and most of what doesn't tends to take the "an array is..." level as a jumping off point.

2. There's no way to know if a Perl6 article from 2009 is going to be a world of hurt via deprecation over six years of development...and 2009 is on the more recent half of the gestation period.

The upshot is that I don't have a good sense of alignment with the language community versus something like Clojure or Python, and it's mostly due to a lack of clarity about the Perl6 community.