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Quoting a quote from the article:

> Perl is portable shell

Which ironically I do use in this way but never formulated it in such a compact and witty way.

I found Perl to be available basically by default on every platform I could encounter, from AIX 3 to Windows (it comes along with Git for Windows, which gives you bash too).



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