I'm a Linux sysadmin/devops with a heavy automation background and quite an interest in automation. I've been writing Perl (until recently that is) for over 15

I'm a Linux sysadmin/devops with a heavy automation background and quite an interest in automation. I've been writing Perl (until recently that is) for over 15 years. Today I focus on Python, both in my personal and work projects. I do it for the same reason I learned Perl originally, because I have a mortgage/rent/expenses to pay. You have folks who walk around with LISP books under their arms and learn obscura perfecta like OCaml, but I'm a lot more simple-minded: I learn what I need to learn to get my job done and also new jobs/gigs lined up. I'm not an academic, nor an advocate. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading purist debates, early adopters, experts, people with interest in dynamic language theory, duking it out. At the end of the day, though, if not a single person around me writes in Perl 6, and not a single job listing shows Perl 6, then I'm probably going to wait it out until that does start to happen. And then we'll see. So, to answer the question by the original poster: I haven't adopted Perl6 because I'm not an early adopter. Maybe if the 24 hour day suddenly became a 28 hour one ...