> It took them years and years, but all this time Perl has been a notable exception. If we take Apple at their word then it's an exception only in that they ha

> It took them years and years, but all this time Perl has been a notable exception. If we take Apple at their word then it's an exception only in that they haven't got round to it yet, not that it isn't also going to be culled -- the Catalina release notes mentioned Perl explicitly alongside the other two: Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, ... -- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-catalina-10_15-release-notes#Scripting-Language-Runtimes https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...