Perl is also an awesome language for web automation and testing, esp with WWW:Mechanize and LWP. Also the kind of freedom or strictness Perl offers to users is

Perl is also an awesome language for web automation and testing, esp with WWW:Mechanize and LWP. Also the kind of freedom or strictness Perl offers to users is just unique. It's like slider on top. Building a website or project? then use strict, and warnings and objects. Want to write a quick and dirty csv parser? well just paste your code in the command line. How cool is that!