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Perl is also used extensively in the Finance industry, special effects industry and also in sysadmin roles. I am aware of that. But you don't hear much about it do you? The same way you don't hear much about C++ nowadays, do you? When perl6 does finally come out would it still be relevant, will it have achieved it's lofty ideals - seeing that python,ruby,php overlap with it's efforts and that functional programming ideas are not exactly the staple of a lot of the programmers out there. There is hope,so do not despair,3D Realms have just released Duke Nukem forever , the teaser trailer, 5.10 is like the 6 teaser .... i hope the similarities end there tho

"Perl is also used extensively in the Finance industry"

I have some personal experience with that unfortunately. The use of Perl in production environments has led to some painful issues, mainly due to its tendency to become obfuscated and incomprehensible, which is the last thing you want when the crap hits the fan several minutes before market-open and even guy who originally wrote the script struggles to understand it.

I've found that the environment tends to be more supportable with simple shell scripts and occasionally Python for the more complex stuff, especially when we are under pressure to rapidly diagnose and address an immediate production issue.