[Novalug] Best programming language for "munging?" Not Perl? Ruby? Python?

[Wayne Dernoncourt]

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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:31:53AM -0400, Paul D. Bain wrote:
>> ...
>> 	My question is this: If Perl is deficient in some
>> respects, then which language is now best for "munging,"
>> the transforming of messy input into cleaner, culled
>> data? In yesteryear, Perl held this distinction -- does
>> it still?

>   OK, no surprise to those who know me at all, but I
> like Tcl/Tk for this.

I used and developed with Tcl/Tk for years.  I thought Tcl/Tk
was great.  It let me develop usable interfaces with drop
down boxes, selection lists, graphs, etc. with a fairly
straight forward language, some weirdness were the Tcl parts
need to talk to the graphics stuff.  I'm still looking for
something that approaches the flexibility of Tcl/Tk (I
could code on my Win98 system and it would work on Sun Solaris
system).  Does Python or Ruby approach the flexibility to
construct user interfaces, etc.

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