Perl is still relevant

Re:Perl is still relevant by x86x87 on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:09PM (#32049062)

have you ever seen a linux box without perl? yeah.

6% of git is perl! perl is everywhere!

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Re:Perl is still relevant by mmcclimon on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:17PM (#32049139)

Very little of git as used by most people is Perl these days; almost everything has been rewritten in C by now. A few things remain, but they're pretty niche: git-send-email, the git-cvs tools (!), git-svn, and git-fast-import (maintained in the contrib/ tree) look to be the only top-level perl things left, at a glance.

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Re:Perl is still relevant by formerly_proven on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:29PM (#32049240)

git-gui/gitk

... wait those are actually Tcl.

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Re:Perl is still relevant by krallja on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:18PM (#32049147)

I just booted a Gentoo rescue CD from the early 2000s and it didn’t have perl. It pretty much only had busybox and nano.

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Re:Perl is still relevant by x86x87 on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:30PM (#32049266)

haha. fair. if you're going to use a specialized linux distro or use linux for a very targeted purpose (ie rescue CD) you might get away without perl. short of that it's in every mainstream distribution.

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