I used perl as my go-to general purpose language for years and years until I joined a python team in 2004, now the only thing I use perl for is as a sed replacement. The perl6 stuff just killed all its momentum dead, and then it seemed to drop off the face of the earth.

I don't see it coming back anywhere near what it was fifteen years ago. Too little too late.

The only thing I miss about perl is the regexes right there at the heart of things, but I'll trade those for scipy/numpy/cython/etc and come out the better for it.