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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 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.



Yeah 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.


> 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




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