I'm a newbie in scripting and I read lot about which language to learn for scripting. I found out that perl is powerful but has gone down in recent time.

I want you to convince me that spending time in learning perl wont be waste and as a newbie in year 2015 which should i go perl 5 or perl 6.

If Perl is not dead then what are the fields its currently used.What are job opportunities. and Will Perl 6 strike back to python.

I really love perl as it is but as a carrer i think i should choose which has high payment and has wide opportunities

Kindly help me i'm very confused between these languages and unable to take decisions on it. I dont want to waste time in one thing then skiping to another.

If perl 6 is good and better then should i skip perl5.

Thank you in advance for taking time to read and answer :)

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