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Meh. Read it as "This is the 6th perl Larry's designed". It is the one after 5, in that sense. The naming is not perfect but it is, at this point, a little la
by mst 11y ago
Meh. Read it as "This is the 6th perl Larry's designed".
It is the one after 5, in that sense.
The naming is not perfect but it is, at this point, a little late to do anything about that.
- cwyers 11y agoBut the other five aren't different languages, they're different versions of the same language. (And if it weren't for the Perl 6 debacle I think what we currently call Perl 5.22 would be something like Perl 6 or even Perl 8 or 9.)