&gt; I just don&#x27;t see why that means people will use it.<p>I wasn&#x27;t arguing for or against that position, just responding to the claim that it (Perl 6) was a new version of a language that had been dormant for 15 years.  In fact I don&#x27;t know what to expect for Perl 6; as an old lover of Perl 5, who hasn&#x27;t done any Perl programming for a while, I would love to see a modern successor, but I&#x27;m not sure that I totally disagree with the people who think that the name now has too many possibly negative connotations.<p>&gt; The people who have been writing Perl have to learn a new language, and people who haven&#x27;t been using Perl have so many others to choose from already.<p>The same is true for any new language, though, whether or not it has &#x27;Perl&#x27; in its name, and some of them do get adopted!