it looks like an overdesigned language for CS students, not fit for real world

What would you have said in the era of Perl4, having closures coming your way? I'm pretty sure these would have looked bizarre. And yet they're one of the Perl5 features I sorely miss in every language that doesn't have them.

Anyway. Forget anything you read about Perl6. Erase it from your mind. Pretend you never saw or heard it. Then, go download one of Damian's talks about Perl6 and listen. See Download of Damian Perl 6 talk audio for a good recent one.

I'm pretty sure you'll come out with a vastly different new opinion.

Bare feature lists inherently look abstract. If you're a C programmer, reading a description of how closures work won't help you. If you're not experienced enough with a concept to extrapolate its usefulness, have its applications explained to you by someone who can.