It has been almost 20 years Perl Community has been releasing the maintenance releases, World had been Waiting eagerly for Perl 6.

I see why people get that impression. However, when you get down to it, Perl 6 (which I understand to be expected to be out this year) really is a different language. I am not sure whether I like it or not (it definitely has a second system feel to it).

Yes, Perl 5 came out just over 20 years ago. But the last 5 years have been quite different than what came before. Perl 5 is a great language (I also like REBOL btw), and one of the real strengths is the fact that it has the flexibility to move between OO and other paradigms quite easily. Not everything is an object like it is in Python, Javascript, or Perl 6....

I don't see Perl 6 supplanting Perl 5 any more than C++ has supplanted C. Yes they will have different niches but.... more likely they will grow up together,