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Whoa, I’ve been using Mac for almost a decade and I never knew it shipped with perl!

It was even used in some unexpected places, for example, see the HN discussion about "Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp" [0], [1]

Most Unix systems do. Apple just does a terrible job of keeping scripting runtimes up to date.

Everything seems to be frozen in time at just before a project changed to GPL 3