If they wanted it to be considered a separate language, they should have changed the name. Perl 5 is not a different language than Perl 4 or Perl 3. Changing th

If they wanted it to be considered a separate language, they should have changed the name. Perl 5 is not a different language than Perl 4 or Perl 3. Changing the meaning of the version number at that point is just hostile to being understood.