Not just new languages. Java is also versioned from Java 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.2 ... 1.8, with recent versions dropping the "1." because they never will have a true "

Not just new languages. Java is also versioned from Java 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.2 ... 1.8, with recent versions dropping the "1." because they never will have a true "2.0" release.