I forced myself to learn Perl 5 a while ago, just so I could at least kvetch knowledgeably about the language. I wound up actually appreciating many of its features, although the OOP system and references are truly godawful.
The long promised Perl 6 may be arriving within our lifetimes, and given the feature set described by Curtis Poe I can only say one thing.
Common Lisp with Perl syntax is going to be really weird.
Honestly, he must have been kidding about that "Real, honest to goodness macros like LISP programmers enjoy,...", right. Right?! If not, that's one I have got to see. Macros and Algol syntax are like oil and water. If the Perl 6 guys have figured out a way to make it work, more power to 'em.
Greenspun's tenth law lives on.