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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by weberc2 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:13AM (#20846082)
Whoa, I’ve been using Mac for almost a decade and I never knew it shipped with perl!
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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by ingve on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:18AM (#20846104)
It was even used in some unexpected places, for example, see the HN discussion about "Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp" [0], [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025572

[1] https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...

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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by snazz on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:18AM (#20846106)
Most Unix systems do. Apple just does a terrible job of keeping scripting runtimes up to date.
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Re:Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions... by selectodude on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:02AM (#20846305)
Everything seems to be frozen in time at just before a project changed to GPL 3
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