My cranky old age is going to show here, but... Python or Perl, all the way. Both have a long history of "standard" modules for common cases and well-maintaine

My cranky old age is going to show here, but... Python or Perl, all the way. Both have a long history of "standard" modules for common cases and well-maintained (if not "standard") modules for alternative approaches to the common cases, or for the uncommon cases. More importantly, both languages have a well-established culture of boringness. This is a quality I actively look for, because it tells me someone wrote code to solve a problem, not because it was the hip thing to do.