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Considering that Perl6 will run Perl5 code directly, I don't think the very different moniker really works. Perl6 is the next version of Perl after Perl5 -- I don't see why it should be a different name.

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Re^2: perl6 or not perl6 ...
by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 09, 2006 at 19:07 UTC

    Perl6 will run Perl5 code directly

    The implementation of Perl 6 will probably have some heuristics for detecting Perl 5 code, and can (if compiled with support for it) invoke an (external or embedded) interpreter for it. However, the language Perl 6 is not compatible with Perl 5.

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