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Actually Perl seems to be used quite a lot at Microsoft. Look at page 3 in this publication: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/0
by malkia 8y ago
Actually Perl seems to be used quite a lot at Microsoft.
Look at page 3 in this publication: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/q_signed-2.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
- ty_a 8y agoPerl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.
- smacktoward 8y agocough VBScript cough
- jug 8y agoHow come? It didn’t ship with WSH but (only) JScript and VBScript did.
- gaius 8y agoDe facto, not de jure. Perl’s COM module was excellent and made Windows very scriptable. This was back in the 90s.
- malkia 8y agoI also remember quite a lot of Perl script in the WDK (Windows Driver Kit) back then. Was surprised by it that there were so many perl hackers @ Microsoft.