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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by WorldMaker on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:01PM (#21228437)
Which in turn suggests the Java (and others') solution of dropping the 5 and making the minor version the new major version. Look out for Perl 31.0 soon.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by spider-mario on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:35PM (#21229100)
Java even got rid of two numbers:

J2EE 1.4 -> Java EE 5

Both “2” and “1.”.

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