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by brvs 4189 days ago
It's out being almost as successful as Perl6 and Python3 :-)

e: Actually wasn't there a blog post posted to HN suggesting Perl skip to 7 too?

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The suggestion was that a future release of Perl5 should be named Perl7. Perl6 is a "spunky little sister"[1] to Perl5, not the next evolution of Perl.

[1] http://perl6.org