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I believe not now but Perl 5.004 was installed on Window NT (3.5 or 4) by default. That made the case for its use on project that could not afford the IBM AIX or Silicon Graphics systems we were using at the time.

We used Netscape Fasttrack as the server.

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Wait what no?! NT4 was released in 1996. And Microsoft touching Open Source without ten foot poles back then also feels wrong.

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.

Sure, but it's not "installed by default" in either of them.

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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