Even Shakespeare would have been proud of that little soliloquy.
For the record:
CS6 is the oldest
CC is next oldest
CC 2014 is the current version.
Yes, I agree that Adobe does have some of the most baffling version numbering I've ever seen. It's almost as if they purposely came up with a system designed to cause end user confusion.
Spare a thought for the Adobe trainers and book authors who have to explain every nuance of the feature changes to every newbie every time there is even a minor change to a feature or menu item.
Trainer: Which version do you have?
User: The Cloud version
Trainer: CS6 or CC or CC 2014?
User: CC 2014. The latest one.
Trainer: Which version of CC 2014?
User: ...............?