Perl++? I don't think this is just a naming problem, and the implications can be significant--Python 3 has been around for almost a decade at this point and is

Perl++? I don't think this is just a naming problem, and the implications can be significant--Python 3 has been around for almost a decade at this point and is still struggling to gain share against Python 2, and it is a less radical syntactic departure (IMO) than Perl 5 to Perl 6. If Perl 6 saps energy from Perl 5 but can't actually take off on its own the whole ecosystem will suffer. I don't fault Wall for wanting to fix some of the enduring pain points in Perl but I think C to C++, where C++ was a superset, and could thus use existing C code, and the JavaScript ES5 to ES6 transition where almost every change is pure sugar are much better examples of how to do this sort of thing.