Thought for the day: Perl 5 is English; Perl 6 is Esperanto.
Esperanto may be a saner language than English in every way.
But English is the language of Shakespeare, of Milton, of Byron, of Dylan Thomas; the language of Arthur Conan-Doyle and Agatha Christie; the language of Tolkien and C S Lewis; of Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter. It's the language of Stoker and Shelley.
Wikipedia notes that over 100 original novels have been published in Esperanto. Big woop-dee-doo(!)
I want to be able to use Perl 6 day to day, but not if that involves missing out on Perl 5's literature (i.e. CPAN).
I'm tobyink on CPAN, IRC and PerlMonks. 
People have been comparing Perl with English since the early days of Perl 1-5, mostly due to Larry's formal education background. Today it makes me want to look up which other programming languages are designed by a linguist.
As with the Perl 6, existing Perl 5 programmers can readily understand a significant part of Perl 6 just by its similarity to Perl 5, but the lack of a real implementation holds it back. All new languages (be it Esperanto or Perl 6) must face the chicken-and-egg problem, but in Perl 6's case somehow the language can only be used in a special audio lab and not on the streets or even at home. This severely limits its usefulness and thus its uptake.
Speaking of CPAN, what's the solution for a Perl 6 CPAN? I found an old Stack Overflow question that directed me to http://modules.perl6.org/. Is this still the alternative at the moment or can Perl 6 module authors use the same CPAN that Perl 5 is using?