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Actually Perl seems to be used quite a lot at Microsoft.

Look at page 3 in this publication: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.

cough VBScript cough

How come? It didn’t ship with WSH but (only) JScript and VBScript did.

De facto, not de jure.

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

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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