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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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Indeed:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html

http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/perl7-light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8bjsimLsk

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

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