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What scripting languages come out of the box on Debian 12?
Poking around in a fresh VM in Vagrant, I see bash dash, a POSIX compliant shell linked under sh python3, 3.11.2 at the time of writing awk, specifically mawk sed, if you count that (I do) perl, specifically Perl 5 There may be others I missed. Why I’m curious: Knowing that a language is installed by default on the most popular Linux distribution can simplify certain concerns considerably, which are of special interest to people who don’t work on Internet-connected boxes.
Why I’m curious: Knowing that a language is installed by default on the most popular Linux distribution can simplify certain concerns considerably, which are of special interest to people who don’t work on Internet-connected boxes. However, this doesn’t include the source code by default, which may bean important concern for far future people who want to figure out what on Earth./foobar is actually doing. Chalk this up as another, perhaps underrated, point in favor of learning Python as your first programming language, aside from the stellar quality resources that exist for it as well.
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