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> Version 6 is generally associated with failure in the world of dynamic languages. PHP 6 was a failure; Perl 6 was a failure. It's actually associated with failure also outside the dynamic language world - MySQL 6 also existed but never released.

TIL MySQL 6

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6



Whereas Python doesn't even plan for 4 because 3 hurt so bad


Meanwhile Java(ECMA)Script bucking the trend by getting its failure out of the way at 4.




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