On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Yaron wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, r j wrote: > >> A question on languages. >> What are your favor languages and what are your favorite ways to use them. > > Perl. It's the swiss-army-language. > > I've played around with PHP (which seemed a lot like bastardized perl). > > If I was trying to do something serious, I'd probably still go with C, > though. It seems like the conventional wisdom these days is that Perl is hard to manage for larger projects and Python is easier to read and share. I really don't know, personally, but this is what I've heard several times from seemingly independent sources. I use perl all the time for small things, mostly search/replace regex kinds of jobs which can be surprisingly powerful. Perl is quite fast at that kind of thing. I definitely would recommend learning Perl regexes. They are also nice in pcregrep, another useful program. Mike