I'm not going to wax poetic. I'm a professional Python programmer who has worked with the language for about 10 years and a former Perl 5 developer who also worked with the developers of Perl 6 for a few years.
I have no illusions about Perl 5's ... age, let's say. It was a solid tool for the day, but Python aged well and Perl 5 did not. Perl 6, on the other hand... well, it's a bag of tricks, and not all of those tricks are ones you want played on you. But, I think there are lessons here. Let's get to them.