> I'm just wondering at that bizarrely enough, Larry Wall (or somebody else) found it useful to have a simple, convenient way to execute a command with exact ar

> I'm just wondering at that bizarrely enough, Larry Wall (or somebody else) found it useful to have a simple, convenient way to execute a command with exact arguments, but not for when you need its output. It had backquotes from the start. So it was as convenient (and as unsafe) as the Bourne shell. Of course you quickly want more safety and backquotes are just legacy you can never use for serious stuff.