One of Perl 6&#x27;s original design goals was that it should &quot;still be Perl&quot;. In that sense, I think it&#x27;s a failure. Aside from a superficial syntactical resemblance, it really doesn&#x27;t feel much like my beloved Perl 5 at all. Its semantics are very different.<p>It also seems to suffer from an advanced (possibly fatal) symbolpasta diarrhoea. Perl 5 was not pretty, but Perl 6 at times can be downright hideous.<p>If Perl 6 is a Lisp, that&#x27;s great! You know, I am deeply and madly in love with Clojure at the moment. But that manages to be a Lisp without falling even deeper into the line noise trap than P5 did. But, you know, syntax is just syntax.