Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 17, 2006 01:00 PM
Just teasing. Python is a certainly good enough. Ruby is a just little better thought-out<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
But for many tasks you really do want a *targeted* language, i.e., a DSL, instead of the most all-around-powerful one, because its idioms and abstractions are designed for what you actually want to do, and AWK is quite the slickness for text-munging.
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Python is old: use Ruby today!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 17, 2006 01:00 PMBut for many tasks you really do want a *targeted* language, i.e., a DSL, instead of the most all-around-powerful one, because its idioms and abstractions are designed for what you actually want to do, and AWK is quite the slickness for text-munging.
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