At least for the past decade or so, I would (roughly and humbly) put Ruby and Python on par with Perl 5 for the purposes of system administration, with a whole

At least for the past decade or so, I would (roughly and humbly) put Ruby and Python on par with Perl 5 for the purposes of system administration, with a whole lot of pros, cons and caveats. Very roughly. It's just that, as a language, Perl has always resonated with me, even though I've rather enjoyed writing in both Ruby and Python. Assuming you are akin to 'Jill Sysadmin' or 'Joe Devops', I would honestly say that Perl 6 won't be more compelling than Perl 5 for a while. And, by the way, Perl 5 has grown enormously in the past 10 years. I would say that if you haven't taken a look in a while, give it another shake. I honestly struggle to imagine the really cool things that will start to come out of Perl 6 acceleration. It has some really novel concurrency concepts, far more interesting than goroutines, for instance. And once again, I believe Perl 6 will turn into a very fast language.