Not really. As in, I wouldn't start from zero and try to learn enough to get a day job at it, at this stage. There are still so many negative tradeoffs in Per

Not really. As in, I wouldn't start from zero and try to learn enough to get a day job at it, at this stage. There are still so many negative tradeoffs in Perl 5 -- especially, and most crucially, for new adopters -- that I don't think it will ever make up the ground it has steadily lost to Python/Ruby/PHP over the last 15 years. P6 has addressed many of P5's most notorious faults, while perpetuating others, and quite likely introducing a whole family of newer, far subtler traps and pitfalls. All while being not particularly fast, poorly document (last I checked -- about a year ago), and like Perl 5, just plain.... zany. That said, there are a lot of incredibly bold -- we might even say, "ahead-of-their-time" ideas in Perl 6 (just as there were in Perl 5, in its time), and I sincerely hope many of these will be carefully studied -- and I won't be surprised if some of them are incorporated to whatever "lingua franca" that ultimately emerges and ends up burying Python, hopefully not too long from now.