[hnlmorg]

> Never seemed to stop people moving from Pascal, or Perl or literally all other languages that are now obsolete.

Operating systems written in Pascal are now obsolete. OSs in C are not.

Perl is much easier to replace because fewer things were dependent on it however even here Perl 5.x still pops up all over the place.

[moffkalast]

Yeah to my great annoyance I did have to grep for an ipv4 address with a perl regex the other day. But for any actual scripting it's basically dead.

[enriquto]

> for any actual scripting it's basically dead.

Run "file /usr/bin/* | grep -i perl | wc -l" on your computer. You will be surprised.

EDIT: if you want a histogram for all the types of programs in your system, run this

    file -bL /usr/bin/* | cut -d' ' -f1-3 | sort | uniq -c | sort