why fucking perl?

I go on any system, fucking perl. I look at scripts written by IT, not shell scripts, fucking perl. I try openBSD, fucking perl. FreeBSD? fucking perl. Default packages on linux even.. no python, no ruby, FUCKING PERL WHAT THE FUCK PERL PERL PERL

>>1

I try openBSD, fucking perl. FreeBSD? fucking perl. Default packages on linux even.

I know some packages in OpenBSD have perl for ./configure, but FreeBSD? I was sure they use .sh when they need scripting, esp. in the /usr/ports/sysutils/ directory.
Linux is something else (a mess, just a mess).

>>2
It was a convenience, not a dependency, which is what it became. Which is why we always encourage our colleagues to always repent w/ C or .sh. Now there's PCRE, no need for excuses.
>>5
http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/qitab/inferior-shell.git
http://www.cliki.net/CLISP-Shell
http://www.clisp.org/clash.html
http://common-lisp.net/project/trivial-shell/
http://dan.corlan.net/shelisp/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Shell-Arguments.html