If I remember correctly originally perl was a large part of nix's implementation. I thought they avoided haskell or another functional programming language in f

If I remember correctly originally perl was a large part of nix's implementation. I thought they avoided haskell or another functional programming language in fear of recruitment issues and went with perl in part because it was known by the implementors. Here is a github issue where they talk about some of the transition to cpp: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/341 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/341