Depends on what you define programming language to be. In all seriousness, some dont consider perl or bash or awk programming languages. For every task, there

Depends on what you define programming language to be. In all seriousness, some dont consider perl or bash or awk programming languages. For every task, there are multiple programming languages suited for the task. You can get away with knowing one language (ie C) to do everything, but it's a pain for all but the most simple stuff. Python and perl are nice languages in that they can do most things that you would use a compiled language for, and most things that you would use a higher level scripting language for.