The biggest mistake IMHO was calling the perl language spec for 6.x "Perl". Because it took so long to finish and to get a proper implementation, a lot of peopl

The biggest mistake IMHO was calling the perl language spec for 6.x "Perl". Because it took so long to finish and to get a proper implementation, a lot of people thought perl as a whole was mostly dead. For the most part, language specs are either bundled fairly tightly with a reference implementation, or have a completely different name. (e.g. ECMAscript, SQL)