Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?

Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by tyingq on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:23AM (#23360983)

I suspect they would need the lua-posix extension, which appears to be maintained by a fairly small number of people. Lua doesn't have some basic stuff they would want, like stat(), chmod(), sleep().

Edit: Sort of makes me wonder why a VERY C-like, small, dynamically typed, scripting language never emerged. Squirrel is kind of close, but not quite what I mean.

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Re:Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installat... by thesuperbigfrog on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:48AM (#23361171)

>> Sort of makes me wonder why a VERY C-like, small, dynamically typed, scripting language never emerged.

Csh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell) was the de facto standard shell on many Unix systems and still is widely used.

However, it has some issues:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt

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