Perl isn't a shell! https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#are-you-reinventing-perl https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.h

Perl isn't a shell! https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#are-you-reinventing-perl https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#a... It also doesn't have any incremental build tool builtin. (not that it should, and not that Oils does) It does have awk though! Though these days I see both awk and make much more than I see Perl. Something interesting happened there