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have you ever seen a linux box without perl? yeah. 6% of git is perl! perl is everywhere!

• mmcclimon 4y ago
  Very little of git as used by most people is Perl these days; almost everything has been rewritten in C by now. A few things remain, but they're pretty niche: git-send-email, the git-cvs tools (!), git-svn, and git-fast-import (maintained in the contrib/ tree) look to be the only top-level perl things left, at a glance.
  • formerly_proven 4y ago
    git-gui/gitk ... wait those are actually Tcl.
• krallja 4y ago
  I just booted a Gentoo rescue CD from the early 2000s and it didn’t have perl. It pretty much only had busybox and nano.
  • x86x87 4y ago
    haha. fair. if you're going to use a specialized linux distro or use linux for a very targeted purpose (ie rescue CD) you might get away without perl. short of that it's in every mainstream distribution.