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Is perl? That's an honest question/honestly surprises me.

But honestly installing anything like that (without WSL probably - haven't used it recently) on Windows is painful, it's not python's fault, it's just a different paradigm. Run with a different environment variable for example.




Last install of Windows 11 I did (triggering) Perl was installed by default


It is not installed by default on any of the systems I work with. We have around 10 office staff that all use windows, and 2 windows servers. No Perl by default on any of them.

To the best of my knowledge you must install one of two main distributions of Perl for Windows. https://www.perl.com/article/downloading-and-installing-perl...

You can also use WSL.

Edit: It sounds like, from other comments, that Perl comes with Git Bash as well.


Are you sure it is "installed by default" or it happens to be inside WSL? Because WSL is not the default.




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