Advise: Programming Language to Learn

[Andrew Malcolmson]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:37:49PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
> I often need to do utility programs to, for example, extract email 
> addresses from a text file.

Any language could do this, but Python is a good chice since the time
you invest in learning it for this simple thing pays off later in bigger
ways.  

Python is the preferred administration language for Ubuntu, RedHat,
Gentoo, and many high profile projects like Gnome, Xen and Subversion.  
HP recently bought a Python (and Ajax) based web service company to
develop its strategy of making consumer printing from the web easier,
and distributes Python on all its Pavillion PC's.
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