I mean, if Perl 6 didn&#x27;t want to be confused with being the same language as Perl 5, it didn&#x27;t have to increment the version number by one and keep the name. As far as why one would want Perl 6 to just be Perl 5 plus some new stuff, that&#x27;s really how most languages handle keeping the same name and incrementing the version by one. People who have Perl 5 code and want to keep writing in the same language but with more whathaveyou probably want Perl 6 The Completely Separate Language to go away so that Perl can get the kind of Perl 6 any other language would&#x27;ve gotten by now.