3 ms·
Pretty much anybody using Unix is using Perl one way or the other. Its a bit like C. The language is so neatly integrated with the OS that its hard to beat it.
by kamaal 9y ago
Pretty much anybody using Unix is using Perl one way or the other.
Its a bit like C. The language is so neatly integrated with the OS that its hard to beat it.
- vgy7ujm 9y agoThis is very true. Not many languages feel so "Unixy" as Perl.
- ioddly 9y agoAfter reading this I couldn't think of anything I personally use that depends on perl, so I tried `pacman -Rs perl` to see what needed it. There's a surprising amount of packages that depend on it - openssl, git, automake...