I attended Jesse Vincent's talk at YAPC::Europe (huge hurrah!) where he plotted out his vision for the future of Perl 5. Intellecutally I always *knew* that Perl 6 was a different language, Wall, Conway, et.al., had been saying that for years. But deep down I expected the significant future to be Perl 6. As another delegate said to me "now I can start thinking about the future".

We need to start giving Perl version numbers against CPAN modules, and be able to search and select that way. We have an issue with that right now, but if Jesse gets his way then it will become much more important.