(Ignoring the ageist and sexist "old men" statements in this thread because it's irrelevant)
They will die out,
... and be replaced with other technically invested people who are resistant to change. Such as with every massive project ever - at least until you get a tyrant who ignores the feelings and work of of others and is in a position to push through their own vision.
And hopefully will continue to be asked, because one day it may not be poor OPSEC.
The BBC still uses it to break news, I'm saddened to say.
Which is a plague that affects every country in the world - so isn't a reason for America being so keen to jail people.
Fun - we get to see how susceptible Meta is to blackmail, for that's what this is. "Illegal" from Mr Trump means "Anything I don't agree with"
OP is on OpenWRT
Fair point - I missed that, buried in the comments as it was.
In that scenario, you use what's available, I guess.
OP said they just want to copy a binary around. Can you do that with perl?
This is linux. Someone will have done it.
Wow, you're a dick.
Try it now - go on. Type "perl" and tell me what you get.
And if you're so certain it's not used, try removing it and see how well your computer works afterwards.
I work at scale - deploying scripts to hundreds of linux machines and any package you install will be multiplied that many times on the backend storage. You don't get the luxury of installing anything that isn't essential.
Try it now - type perl. It's a dependency on a huge amount of core system tools.
Um, exactly the opposite on all the distros I use. All Enterprise Linux distros, Suse and Debian.
Simple and reliable has a lot to be said for it.