[draegtun]

Some good points there. Here is my POV on a couple of them:

Everyone I've encountered online who has used both Perl 5 and Perl 6 says that they like Perl 6 (the language) better.

My heart loves perl6 whereas my head prefers perl5 :) Fortunately the syntax and semantics between them are so close I don't think I'll ever have an issue switching between them (in fact this maybe become a good consultancy requirement, ie. job opportunity, for the future?).

re: future of perl5 - There is good momentum behind perl5 & CPAN at the moment that I doubt it will be deflected at all by perl6 for quite a while. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if perl6 draws a bigger attention from outside of the perl5 world.