> The over-decade-long transition to Perl 6 Is it really a transition, though? Perl6 looks to me more like an unrelated language bootstrapping from the Perl5 e

> The over-decade-long transition to Perl 6 Is it really a transition, though? Perl6 looks to me more like an unrelated language bootstrapping from the Perl5 ecosystem. It's certainly more different from Perl5 than something like Ruby. The biggest mistake with Perl6 was probably to have "Perl" as part of its name. "Rakudo" might have proven more popular from the start. At least it would have gotten rid of all the pointless and altogether predictable discussions.