Sure there was, everyone was talking about perl6 migration back in 2000's. The "unfortunately named language" appeared once it became clear once migration failed.
> So the upward migration path from Perl 5 to Perl 6 will probably be to run your code through a translator.
> Larry promised not to abandon Perl 5. The 5.6 maintenance track will continue as planned, and the 5.7 development track will eventually yield Perl 5.8, as planned. 5.8 will be the final release of Perl 5, but it will continue to be maintained and stable.
perl is at 5.37 now... so much for "5.8 will be the final release" :) Also, this does sounds awfully like Python 2->3 migration.
