Question: Is there any visible progress? Is it now just an academic exercise? Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten?

Answer: 
There is plenty of visible progess. chromatic posts the minutes from the weekly Parrot/Perl 6 conference call to [Use.perl](http://use.perl.org) and [rakudo.org](http://rakudo.org/) each week, you can read [Jonathan Worthington's journal](http://use.perl.org/~JonathanWorthington/journal/), or [Patrick Michaud's journal](http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal), or the various Perl 6 mailing lists. As Mortiz points out, you can see the [daily state of the test suite](http://rakudo.de/).

Recent developments include Larry Wall's finishing off the work to specify the complete grammar, the Rakudo developers adding pre-compiled module support, and Jonathan's multi-level dispatch work.

It's certainly easy to follow the progress, but you probably already knew that you could easily use Google to find out ("perl6 progress" leads to good resources). Perhaps you had another question though, or just want to kick the hornet's nest?
There is now a roadmap for [parrot](https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/roadmap) at least.

There is also a website that [tracks](http://rakudo.de/) the number of tests that the [Rakudo](http://rakudo.org/) implementation passes.

[![http://rakudo.de/progress.png](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tHKAn.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tHKAn.png)  

(source: [rakudo.de](http://rakudo.de/progress.png))