> I thought you just liked languages that start arrays at 1... Ha. If anything, I'm big on languages based around pattern matching. :) Oh, and Erlang's ports

> I thought you just liked languages that start arrays at 1... Ha. If anything, I'm big on languages based around pattern matching. :) Oh, and Erlang's ports are better than Unix pipes - it's more like a process run in isolation with asynchronous IO, and which the local Erlang runtime can restart as necessary. I changed the wording a bit to make that clearer. I prefer working 100% in higher level languages and then moving hotspots down to C, etc., but it seems like languages designed to be glue languages make the transition easiest (because they have a kind of inherent modesty). I never got into Tcl, but feel a common mindset in Ousterhout's essays (such as http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html).