Larry's contention that there's a single culture incorporating Perl and "Perl6" is just clinging to a long-discredited fantasy.

I'm not sure why you make that assertion? Anyway, it seems to me like your feelings on this topic might be a lot stronger than mine.

By the way, in case you haven't been to a Perl Conference yet or recently, I can very much recommend it - I went to my second one this year and it was great!