This was something that was tangentially addressed yesterday - the idea was that Perl 6 isn't meant to be a flavor of the week language, but something that could conceivably last for decades.
One interesting thing Larry mentioned related to that long term view was that due to Perl 6 being a multi paradigm language, it could potentially become the defacto teaching language in academia, because it fulfills the roles of OO, functional, procedural, and logic programming in a single package. Eventually, that new generation of Perl 6 learners would go on to form startups and create bigger and better things. I'm not sure if this will come to fruition, but I think it's certainly worth keeping an eye on.
One interesting thing Larry mentioned related to that long term view was that due to Perl 6 being a multi paradigm language, it could potentially become the defacto teaching language in academia, because it fulfills the roles of OO, functional, procedural, and logic programming in a single package. Eventually, that new generation of Perl 6 learners would go on to form startups and create bigger and better things. I'm not sure if this will come to fruition, but I think it's certainly worth keeping an eye on.