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by ty_a 2802 days ago
Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.
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smacktoward 2802 days ago
cough VBScript cough
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malkia 2802 days ago
I also remember quite a lot of Perl script in the WDK (Windows Driver Kit) back then. Was surprised by it that there were so many perl hackers @ Microsoft.
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jug 2802 days ago
How come? It didn’t ship with WSH but (only) JScript and VBScript did.
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gaius 2802 days ago
De facto, not de jure.

Perl’s COM module was excellent and made Windows very scriptable. This was back in the 90s.

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