The latest version of perl is revision 5 version 12. The 12 is the major version number. There is also a separate language called perl6 that we steal ideas fr

The latest version of perl is revision 5 version 12. The 12 is the major version number. There is also a separate language called perl6 that we steal ideas from. But while the perl and perl6 communities share a fair few members, they aren't really the same community. If you find this confusing, I suggest you do what myself - and a number of the Rakudo Perl6 developers - are finding ourselves doing, and referring to the perl6 spec as "Camelia" instead to reduce the number of people confusing it with perl.