&gt; I am not following your issues with the versioning.<p>As I understand it, Perl 6 is essentially a complete language overhaul. However, the sequential numbering implies an iteration. To me, that&#x27;s unintuitive.<p>At the risk of over-analogizing, it&#x27;s a bit as if Scala had been released as Java (n). Totally, completely irrational? Maybe not. Confusing? Almost certainly.