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Perl Hacks is a personal blog at perlhacks.com about programming. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
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MS(IE) had ActiveScript, of which VBS was just one implementation (although it was the bundled one that always existed). People have built integrations for stuff like Tcl, Python, or Perl, making them available to the browser. Example: https://perlhacks.com/2026/07/remember-perlscript-when-inter...
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