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actionfromafar
on April 21, 2023
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Why Perl?
Wait what no?! NT4 was released in 1996. And Microsoft touching Open Source without ten foot poles back then also feels wrong.
HeckFeck
on April 21, 2023
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Perl was used as part of the Windows XP build process, if you know where to look. It might have been used in NT4 as well.
gattilorenz
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Sure, but it's not "installed by default" in either of them.
HeckFeck
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I wonder if that was ever considered as a possibility at Microsoft. They had proven the camel was capable with Win32 stuff in their build process.
Maybe it was considered technically by some of the programmers, but swiftly quieted by PMs.
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