A few years ago, the next version of perl was going to be version 6. There were to be a lot of changes that I did not really like; I forget most of the details,

A few years ago, the next version of perl was going to be version 6. There were to be a lot of changes that I did not really like; I forget most of the details, now. I have not had any deep conversations about this with anyone, but I suspect that I was not alone in my opinion. So yes, I think most perl programmers have completely ignored the perl 6 proposal, and as a consequence, perl 6 simply hasn't happened. As proposed, I would definitely consider perl 6 a different language, and if perl 5 were phased out, I would probably give up on perl and switch to python. As it happens, perl 5 is still around, and I still use it, and I had sort of forgotten about perl 6.