Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5

[Jonathan Rockway]

Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:30:19PM +0000, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> [...]
>> You are presuming that Perl6 is version 6 of that thing that Perl5 is
>> version 5 of. It isn't. (Though I will admit given the name it's not an
>> unreasonable first impression).
>
> My biggest question about Perl6 is not about this or that language feature
> or syntax, why it is *called* Perl6?

Because Perl is Larry's project, and 6 is the next available version
number?

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway