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ty_a
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Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.
smacktoward
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malkia
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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.
jug
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How come? It didn’t ship with WSH but (only) JScript and VBScript did.
gaius
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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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