I was looking the "Microsoft Research" for the 1st time, and was surprised with how many time we found references to Perl on it.

We can see Perl used for a "Bilingual Sentence Aligner", Perl REGEXP implementation for C++ on VC++, etc...

Some links:

http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/

http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=411

http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/MSBNx/faqs.aspx

And the list goes...

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