Is Perl Installed? Don't use this script to check!

Over at use.perl.org Ovid recently posted How to tell if Perl is installed on your computer , an entry that points to a shell script that must die. Go and read the script in the post, I’ll wait.

Note: this isn’t his code and he’s blame free, he just found it and started waving it like a red flag so the anal shell scripters among us have something to moan about :)

Firstly why use ksh? The script doesn’t do anything neat so just use sh, which exists on almost all Unix machines in some form (even if it’s bash in a dress playing pretend). Secondly, why do a which perl and then COMPLETELY IGNORE the results? You might as well just run perl -V on the command line as you’re using $PATH anyway. GAH!