should i skip perl5
That depends partly on when you want a return on your investment and how much risk you want in your investment. There are currently many million lines of Perl 5 code in production that will need developers for many years to come. Perl 5 is very stable and has huge amounts of documentation. The information you found on it having "gone down" is partly FUD - good Perl 5 developers are still in demand. (Which means that if you learn Perl 5, you'll have to put a significant amount of effort into becoming a good Perl 5 developer).
Perl 6 will most definitely be better than Perl 5 - but only when it gets a production release, a few books written on it, plus a couple of years for it to catch on in production environments, to work out the issues in the first few production releases, for the module ecosystem to grow, for people to build codebases in Perl 6, and so on.
Provided that Perl 6 gains as much ground as Perl 5, then beginning to learn Perl 6 now rather than later will give you a huge advantage in several years (though it's unclear how many years), much in the same way that those of us that learned Perl 5 in the good old days have the advantage of speaking it fluently now, knowing all its quirks, knowing which modules to use, etc. But the day when Perl 6 is in regular production use still needs to come.
My opinion: Diversify - If you can, then learn both!
In reply to Re: Should I learn perl 5 in 2015
by Anonymous Monk
in thread Should I learn perl 5 in 2015
by shankonit
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