At the time, yes, absolutely. Now, Perl is pretty nice, and you get a lot of nic...

		jrockway on April 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming is hard, let's go scripting.. At the time, yes, absolutely. Now, Perl is pretty nice, and you get a lot of nice libraries. I have used Java and Python extensively now and I like Perl a lot more. All three are quite usable, however.