http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=678829


in reply to Re^4: Why Change?
in thread Why Change?

LW says, "I've also seen what happens to other languages that change their name. They basically lose their branding, and have to start all over. I'm too Lazy to do all that work again. "

He also says, "Plus there's a longstanding cultural assumption that major version numbers indicate incompatible changes, despite the recent trend for marketeers to pretend that great strides have been made when they haven't."

...but himself broke that assumption with prior perl's.