<p>Is there any visible progress?  Is it now just an academic exercise?  Do you believe Perl will continue to evolve with or without Perl 6 or will soon be forgotten?</p>

I feel like some good things may come from Perl 6 (e.g. parrot), but I'm not counting on ever doing anything with the language.
In the bioinformatics development group where I work, we're encouraging use of Python for new development where Perl would have been the language of choice in the past.  Python appears to provide a better path forward for us.