jon peterson was the first to send us the note about Simon Cozens' article at www.perl.com: For those that were baffled by the original 5.6 release notes, there is now a more comprehensible summary of the main new features available over at http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/04/whatsnew.html.
We've also been discussing the new Perl in the poll on the home page.