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If you look carefully there is a arrow on the right inidicating that story continues per legend (perhaps ran out of time, space, and labour).
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Re^3: I coulda sworn CPAN and being wired to think like your brain were the reasons for Perl's longevity
by xdg (Monsignor) on Nov 07, 2007 at 11:57 UTC

    Yes, but plenty of other languages have multiple version updates continuing onward. I would think that Perl 5 is a fairly major change from Perl 4 and by 2001 when the graph ends, I think that Perl 5.005 was the modern version of Perl at the time.

    -xdg

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