Yes, but it took so many years of confusing people not deeply familiar with the situation that perl6 will be a better perl5 (as perl5 was a better perl4, perl4 was a better perl3, etc.) while in reality it was a very different beast.
Re:Pip has dropped support for Python 2
by wheresmycraisin on Sunday January 24, 2021 @08:09AM
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It would've taken 45 seconds of reading wikipedia article to figure out that Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages. Java went from 1.4 to 5. With standardized languages like C/C++/etc you have to keep track of not only the toolchain version but also the standard version (like C99/C++11, etc). Programmers routinely keep track of these just fine.
IIRC the language known as "Perl", version 5, when it gets to the point when it is going to update it's major version, will skip 6 and go right to Perl 7
1: https://lwn.net/Articles/802329/