Larry Wall talks about Perl 6 chasing Paul Graham's idea of a 100 year language (though he'd be happy with 30 or 40). [1] So I think it might be fair to say he takes a longer term view of programming languages and learning them than some other people...if 15 years of incubation wasn't enough evidence in itself.

[1]: https://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-larry-wall/