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Whoa, I’ve been using Mac for almost a decade and I never knew it shipped with perl!
by weberc2 7y ago
Whoa, I’ve been using Mac for almost a decade and I never knew it shipped with perl!
- ingve 7y agoIt was even used in some unexpected places, for example, see the HN discussion about "Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp" [0], [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025572 [1] https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d/gen/wordexp.c#L192 https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...
- snazz 7y agoMost Unix systems do. Apple just does a terrible job of keeping scripting runtimes up to date.
- selectodude 7y agoEverything seems to be frozen in time at just before a project changed to GPL 3