Yeah, it's a good idea to learn Python well. And perl. But... sitting here in this cubicle, in front of a PuTTy window working on a production server for a lar

Yeah, it's a good idea to learn Python well. And perl. But... sitting here in this cubicle, in front of a PuTTy window working on a production server for a large financial institute to manipulate text files and I don't have access to either of those. Ruby is not installed. Most of the time cut, comm, paste, diff, tr and ed|sed does my job. When they aren't, then there is an old awk binary. So, it depends on the job and the tools you have. IMO every developer should learn the bare minimum about UTP utilities. It won't hurt.