Circa 1995. The last time I wrote any perlscript in XSI, as it was then known.
$array = $Application->GetMarking();
for $item (@$array) {
$Application.LogMessage("Marking: $item");
}
#INFO : Marking: kine.local.pos
eX-SI
ICE, scripting, and other tech stuff about Softimage aka XSI
eX-SI 
So did Perl have any specific merits over the other scripting languages or was it just “one of the pack”?
Perlscript had ActiveX scripting support, an absolute requirement (otherwise the scripting language cannot be used in Softimage).
Yes,, but so do “they” all. But was there anything special Perl enabled you to do in an easier way than other scripting languages did?
I thought maybe you were asking why PerlScript was included at all, instead of Ruby or something…
Perl is rather like Python. Powerful, flexible, expressive, and super weird looking to the newbie 🙂 Huge library of modules available. And incredible regex capabilities too.
See here. Scroll down to the Expressivity section.
“super weird looking to the newbie” – That’s quality any scripting language should have (I grew up learning and subsequently using FORTH, which easily can qualify as “super weird looking to the newbie” also, I guess…) 😀
And: thanks for you reply, BTW…