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That split was terrible and it took over a decade to fully resolve, but it's behind us now.

...for those lucky enough to be able to do so. I've been promised the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 systems will be replaced in two years. 10 years ago, they were to be replaced in one year.

Neither does Python, for years now.

I'm pretty sure people are going to be haunted by it for years. I just updated some internal scripts for Python 3 this year.

I believe they should have been Py3 when they wrote them. It was not my decision, but it did become my problem.

Perl did have a 5.6/5.8 split over unicode, but it wasn't nearly so bad. By the time 5.10 came out, I think everything had been sorted. Or my work changed and I stopped running into code that I needed to patch 'use bytes' into.

not to mention the perl5 / perl6 split

perl6 is now called raku