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You can create freestanding applications with PerlApp, so you could write a PerlApp to check to see if perl was installed on the host system. That would be 1 (unlikely) use of "is_perl_installed"

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Re^3: Most useless function.
by DrHyde (Prior) on Feb 20, 2006 at 09:55 UTC 
    sub is_perl_installed {
    if(rand() < 0.5) {
        recursively_unlink(find_perl_on_disk());
        return 0;
    }
    return 1;
}

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