An old but informative article on Perl 6: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perl.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;2006&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;what_is_perl_6.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.perl.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;2006&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;what_is_perl_6.html</a><p>And a brief blurb from the Perl 6 FAQ that helps explain it a bit:<p>&gt; Perl 6 is still a very perlish language, following the same underlying ideas as previous versions (sigils for mini-namespaces, There Is More Than One Way To Do It, caring about both manipulexity and whipuptitude, taking many ideas from natural language (like disambiguation through context))<p>&gt; Perl 6 code feels very perlish. A Perl 5 program using Moose or a similar object system feels closer to Perl 6 than to Perl 1 code<p>&gt; &quot;Perl&quot; is still a strong brand name, which we don&#x27;t want to throw away lightly<p>&gt; It is very hard to find a good alternative name. And no, &quot;camelia&quot; and &quot;rakudo&quot; are not good names for a programming language (even if they are fine for our mascot and the leading compiler)<p>&gt; Even if Perl 6 changed its name, an incremental update to Perl 5 likely couldn&#x27;t claim the version 6, because the name Perl 6 sticks in people&#x27;s head, and will long be associated with what it is today