This is probably because a good majority of the time it's used on the command line directly instead of writing the code to a file and executing that. In the da

This is probably because a good majority of the time it's used on the command line directly instead of writing the code to a file and executing that. In the days perl was more commonly used inline ( perl -e 'print "\x90"x200;' and friends) it was often referred to the same way.