From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 09:35:21 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Почему единственный интерпретируемый язык в штатной поставке OpenBSD это Perl?
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Почему единственный интерпретируемый язык в штатной поставке OpenBSD это Perl?

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=159041121804486&w=2

    Assume you need a script language, because writing everything in C is
    cumbersome.

    What are the choices ?
    - you need something under and acceptable licence, so python is out.
    (Artistic Licence is "close enough");
    - you need something that builds everywhere, so python is out (hard to build
    without dynamic libraries, that was vax...);
    - you want a modicum of security, so shell and tcl and php are out.
    - awk would kind of work, except it's not that readable, and it wouldn't
    scale up to some of the things we use perl for.
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