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Thanks to a quirk of history, the "6" in "Perl 6" is part of the name. The project was originally planned to be the next version of Perl, but ended up a vastly different, entirely new language. The original Perl continued its life on a different design path and is still actively developed as a sister language to Perl 6. There is some effort to create an alias for "Perl 6" name, to avoid this type of naming confusion.

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for "Perl 6" name,, missing a "the"?

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The original Perl continues its life ...

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zoffixznet commented Nov 2, 2017 •
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for "Perl 6" name,, missing a "the"?

Thanks. Fixed.

The original Perl continues its life ...

That part of the sentence still refers to the indeterminate period in the past where Perl 6 became a new language and Perl decided to continue on a different path. The "is still actively developed" part then brings us to the present, to indicate that path still continues even today.

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