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Except Windows, of course. You can install it there but it's plainly obvious it's in a foreign environment.

A lot of people focus on Perl's bad reputation as one of the first web languages instead of its actual purpose, a better sh/awk/sed. If you're writing shell scripts Perl's a godsend for anything complex.



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