> Wall wanted a language that allowed for cleverness, suprise, and ingenuity. [...] Having to learn to be a poet to be a good coder was too high a barrier.
To me this just sounds, umm, pathologically eclectic.
>>kubanc+(OP)
Now extrapolate to "let's do a Perl 6 that allows us to do all the things I couldn't work into Perl 5" and a lot more history makes sense.