Why Perl? - Hackdot

Re:Why Perl? by the_third_wave on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:14PM (#35647791)

Any company using Proxmox [1]:

   $ dpkg -l|grep -i proxmox|awk '/perl/ { print $2}'
   libproxmox-acme-perl
   libproxmox-rs-perl
   libpve-apiclient-perl
   libpve-cluster-api-perl
   libpve-cluster-perl
   libpve-common-perl
   libpve-guest-common-perl
   libpve-http-server-perl
   libpve-storage-perl

 [1] https://proxmox.com/

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Re:Why Perl? by winrid on Thursday April 20, 2023 @09:38PM (#35648858)

I found this and read some of the code a while ago. Was very surprised it was in Perl, but makes sense I guess.

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Re:Why Perl? by dizhn on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:42AM (#35651580)

A lot of OpenSuse's infrastructure has decades old perl pieces still doing part of the work of important services.

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