To put it bluntly: The next Perl release should be 6.0.
The existing perl6 projects can figure out their own branding, because it's clear they are no longer "successors" or replacements for Perl.
The existing perl6 projects can figure out their own branding, because it's clear they are no longer "successors" or replacements for Perl.
The next release in the perl5 series could be Perl 7, similar to what PHP [0] has done to avoid confusing their next major release with a previous, failed effort to create a new major version.
That still forces perl6 to rebrand but won't induce massive confusion.
Larry is a brilliant guy, but (like everyone, really), he's not brilliant in everything and (like most people seen as absolute geniuses, so relatively few people), what he's not good at, he finds so frustrating as to condemn it, and cry foul at the very concept. This helps no one.
I don't know how to teach someone humility.
Anyways beating a dead horse.