Sorry for such a mundane topic but I haven't come across a definitive answer to this one. Having a quick look into Perl 6, whilst there are many new cool features, there are some things that seem to inflame/amplify some of the bad points in Perl 5. I love Perl 5 and I know that it isn't going to disappear very quickly or even ever because of all the Perl 5 code out there. But will it go into a maintenance only mode with a strong impetus to switch to 6 or will in fact the languages split and carry on separately? I noticed that one of the Perl 6 sites refers to Perl 6 as a sister language, implying that a split might be the case.

MTIA,

Tony.