I agree! Acting like Perl 6 is inevitable does listeners a disservice. Several smart people are working hard on it, but it's also burned out a lot of people over its long lifetime, and it has no practical implementations yet. I expect it will one day be practical, but I don't expect it soon and I won't predict when it will be.

I suspect that in five years, the Perl 5 I write today will still be running my business.