Introduction.- Author's Bio.- Section I: Basics, Data Flow, Program Flow: Perl 6 Language Road Map; Stricture by Default; Text, Numbers, and Other Constant Data; Names, Containers, and Values; Traits and Attributes; Arrays and Multidimensional Arrays; Data Structures; Switch Statement; Block Structure; Perl Subroutines.- Section II: Java, Python, Ruby Influence: Modules on Demand; Kinds of Objects; Perl Objects; Perl Exceptions; Type Safety; Threading, or Multi-Threading.- Section III: Lisp, Scheme, ML Influence: Hyper Operators; Any and All; Lexical Closures; Lexical Subroutines; Continuations; Coroutines.