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6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2015-02-10 · latest 2023-09-25

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  1. …libraries I think Indeed. char *cmd = "/usr/bin/perl -e 'print join(chr(0), @ARGV), chr(0)' -- "; ( https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771... ) That’s to implement wordexp , a POSIX function that probably is best…
    comment by Someone · 2023-09-25 · in PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma
  2. Or even, uh... shell out to perl https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2023-02-05 · in I use C when I believe in memory safety
  3. …out to Perl to implement wordexp" [0], [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9025572 [1] https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...
    comment by ingve · 2019-08-31 · in Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS
  4. Apples libc used to shell-out to perl in a function: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...
    comment by fs111 · 2019-08-28 · in Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
  5. …[0] - /* XXX this is _not_ designed to be fast */ + /* XXX this is _not_ designed to be safe */ [0] https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...
    comment by senozhatsky · 2019-01-16 · in Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (2017)
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    Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp
    story by devbug · 2015-02-10 · 47 comments