I would second the perl vote. One-liners, system administration, web applications, it runs the gamut and scales well. Just follow best practices to keep code clean and manageable. -Steve Yaron wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, r j wrote: > >> A question on languages. >> What are your favor languages and what are your favorite ways to use them. > > Perl. It's the swiss-army-language. > > I've played around with PHP (which seemed a lot like bastardized perl). > > If I was trying to do something serious, I'd probably still go with C, > though. > > > -Yaron >