And yet if I go to http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ I read that "Perl 6 is the next version of the Perl programming language." Read the FA

And yet if I go to http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ http://dev.perl.org/perl6/ I read that "Perl 6 is the next version of the Perl programming language." Read the FAQ on that page and follow the links, and try to see them from an outsider's point of view. You and I know about the relation between Perl 5 and Perl 6 and the rough status of projects like Rakudo. But for someone who hasn't been following the development, it's extremely confusing and its not their fault, its the Perl 6 community's fault.