> It's best to admit as soon as it's clear what's happening that you are doing something entirely new Larry said something similar on day one. > and let the o

> It's best to admit as soon as it's clear what's happening that you are doing something entirely new Larry said something similar on day one. > and let the old project live out its own lifecycle. Larry did exactly that. It's still living out its own lifecycle and will for another N decades. > re-using the name of a once-well-loved and established language is a bad move for both the old and the new versions. I agree that this has likely turned out to be the case for Perl 6.