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Re: Best Programming Language
From: Derek Fountain <derekfountain () yahoo co uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:51:18 +0000
david lodge wrote:
[*] perl is sort of a poor man's awk/shell bastard mix with libraries added, the libraries are pretty much all that saves it being consigned to the wastebin of history.
Perl isn't a poor man's anything. It's got a massive feature set before you start to look at the libraries. It's very quick to develop with, very flexible and cross platform. It's a great language for security work: it's network access functions are excellent, low level right through to high level. It's got great HTTP, SQL and sysadmin facilities. Loads of exploits are written with it and it's perfect for knocking up quick, automated custom tests and attacks.
David, if you don't like Perl that's fine, but stating your rather extreme opinions as facts to people asking for advice really isn't fair, either on the language or the person asking for advice.
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