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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by anthk on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:15PM (#31264639)
Perl had an amazing Win32 support back in the day, and still does.

https://perldoc.perl.org/Win32

https://metacpan.org/search?size=20&q=win32

RAS, OLE, COM, ODBC. Perl did magick on NT/2K/XP.

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by HeckFeck on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:36PM (#31265513)
And it was (may still be) used in the Windows build environment!
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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by singingfish on Thursday May 05, 2022 @09:58AM (#31273407)
VMS too!
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