What ever you do, stay away from perl! It might give you access to CPAN, one of the finest crowd sourced solution libraries ever created... with modules for del

What ever you do, stay away from perl! It might give you access to CPAN, one of the finest crowd sourced solution libraries ever created... with modules for delving into data structures dating back to the earliest days of the Internet, and plenty of shims into other things. The way perl embraced regular expressions and integrated them into the language structure cannot be beat. Most perl vs. python discussions these days go like this: python user: "It so much better then perl where you are forced to [contrived and arbitrary example with weird syntax]" perl user: "Looks OK, though I could do that better. How is it done in python?" python user: "In python, we just [contrived and arbitrary example with weird syntax]. It's easy!"