> It is literally installed on any *nix OS, macOS included.
To my horror/surprise, not necessarily so any more. A whole lot of the OS parts that used perl have been ported away, or no longer part of the OS. It's entirely possible to run production workloads on RHEL without perl installed, for example.
I had a nice perl script I'd written ages ago that I sort of trundled around with me for a while, that could extract multi-line stack traces from plain text logs if any of the lines matched a certain string, and couldn't because no perl. I had to quickly rewrite it in python (wasn't hard to do, admittedly)
To my horror/surprise, not necessarily so any more. A whole lot of the OS parts that used perl have been ported away, or no longer part of the OS. It's entirely possible to run production workloads on RHEL without perl installed, for example.
I had a nice perl script I'd written ages ago that I sort of trundled around with me for a while, that could extract multi-line stack traces from plain text logs if any of the lines matched a certain string, and couldn't because no perl. I had to quickly rewrite it in python (wasn't hard to do, admittedly)