As a new programmer, should I wait for Perl 6, or just learn Perl 5, this article makes Perl 6 look quite compelling.
Learn Perl 5 if you want to learn how a full-featured, complete, and liberating-to-use programming language works.
Check out Perl 6 if you want to see what some of us are building, and if you value ideas as such, even when they haven't all been put together into a finished, polished product.