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> Never seemed to stop people moving from Pascal, or Perl or literally all other languages that are now obsolete. Operating systems written in Pascal are now o
by hnlmorg 3y ago
> Never seemed to stop people moving from Pascal, or Perl or literally all other languages that are now obsolete.
Operating systems written in Pascal are now obsolete. OSs in C are not.
Perl is much easier to replace because fewer things were dependent on it however even here Perl 5.x still pops up all over the place.
- moffkalast 3y agoYeah to my great annoyance I did have to grep for an ipv4 address with a perl regex the other day. But for any actual scripting it's basically dead.
- enriquto 3y ago> for any actual scripting it's basically dead. Run "file /usr/bin/* | grep -i perl | wc -l" on your computer. You will be surprised. EDIT: if you want a histogram for all the types of programs in your system, run this file -bL /usr/bin/* | cut -d' ' -f1-3 | sort | uniq -c | sort