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Perl 5? What version? Perl has been on that major version for some 20+ years, right?!

And will likely remain with that major version for the next 20 years since Perl 6 became Raku.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)

There will be a Perl 7[1], essentially Perl 5.32 with a new name.

[1] https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/

They gave up on that plan. https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-pe...

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