Sadly, the situation is different from Python's. Python 3 is well-defined, with a stable and usable implementation. You can port your code to it today, and eve

Sadly, the situation is different from Python's. Python 3 is well-defined, with a stable and usable implementation. You can port your code to it today, and even big projects like Django are getting ready to shift over to it. Perl 6's definition continues to change, with no clear spec, and the leading implementation (Rakudo) doesn't have half of the features built. Even if there were a feature-complete implementation of it I wouldn't dream of starting to port my code over to Perl 6 yet. Perl 6 is really a different language, and should be named as such. With that out of the way, Perl 5 can then get rid of its "5" and move on to release 16 in a year.