The operating rule of perl6 design is that today's code will run unchanged, but for your code to take advantage of perl6 syntax and capabilities, your code must specifically declare that it is perl6-ready.

The underlying technologies (the native vm or the parrot vm) are largely irrelevant to implementing perl applications.

How and when and why you might want to learn perl6 is completely at your own pace.

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