On my brand new Fedora 13 I notice that a lot of stuff is managed trough Perl. I'm always been curious about it, but I never watched at it, while I'm pretty good in many other languages (like C, C++, Java and Python).
What do you think about it? Is it worthy to learn it?
Personally, I learned Perl by tinkering with other people's scripts. I didn't just decide to learn Perl and start reading all the books and stuff.
Having said that, there's A LOT of material out there that will help you learn it if you chose to. There's like a dozen tutorials out there that teach you how to do something in many different ways, so there's always something for everybody. That's how Perl is.
I use Perl for pretty much everything. I would try it if I were you, you might like it.