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Larry said something similar on day one.
> and let the old project live out its own lifecycle.
Larry did exactly that. It's still living out its own lifecycle and will for another N decades.
> re-using the name of a once-well-loved and established language is a bad move for both the old and the new versions.
I agree that this has likely turned out to be the case for Perl 6.
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Larry said something similar on day one.
> and let the old project live out its own lifecycle.
Larry did exactly that. It's still living out its own lifecycle and will for another N decades.
> re-using the name of a once-well-loved and established language is a bad move for both the old and the new versions.
I agree that this has likely turned out to be the case for Perl 6.