Makes sense if python is what you otherwise use for everyday work, it's always easiest if you can avoid context switching. To me it's bash, sed and awk for the

Makes sense if python is what you otherwise use for everyday work, it's always easiest if you can avoid context switching. To me it's bash, sed and awk for the basic text-processing things, and then perl for anything that requires more programming. These are very similar syntaxes (and ways of thinking I'd say), so they fit together great - and also are close enough to php and js that I do at work to make the transition painless. But if I had to write it in python or ruby or God forbid C++ - which all I used a lot, but long time ago - I'm sure it would be a big struggle for me now.