If the author is correct that developing in Perl is very different today, the logical thing would be to bump the major release number. But they can't because e

If the author is correct that developing in Perl is very different today, the logical thing would be to bump the major release number. But they can't because everyone already knows what Perl 6 is (and most people have very negative perceptions of that). It would have been better to call that project Perl 3000 or give it some code name. But it's too late. I suggest calling the next release of Perl 5, Perl 7. If Perl 6 ever gets to 1.0, it can be Perl 8. (half serious)