And how about Perl 7? Perl 14 would feel like the Java version bump, and people would say "well Perl 5 just dropped the 5" which means nothing in fact. Perl 7 c

And how about Perl 7? Perl 14 would feel like the Java version bump, and people would say "well Perl 5 just dropped the 5" which means nothing in fact. Perl 7 could start enforcing all "use feature" and "strict modernity" out-of-the-box and package things like Moose and sub signatures. And as a side dish, we could do a cleanup of the interpreter code for p5p mental sanity, in a "less is more" fashion. Actually the odd numbers could become the Perl5 series and its gradual evolution. And the evens, the experimental Perl6 series of taking computer languages where no man has gone before. But that's just pointless... it would be another 20 christmas before Perl 8 would start to materialize. Besides, Perl 7 is supposed to be "God's rewrite of Perl". So, here's where God comes in and Perl 7 saves us all.