"Perl 5" is a programming language. So is "Perl 6". They're sister languages, not competitors. This release will be "Perl 5" version 20. As the guy who was re

"Perl 5" is a programming language. So is "Perl 6". They're sister languages, not competitors. This release will be "Perl 5" version 20. As the guy who was responsible for 5.12 and 5.14, I think this is a horrible idea. It'd lead to incredible amounts of user confusion and break all sorts of shit for pretty much no upside other than a version number pissing match with Perl 6.