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in reply to Since I discovered Perl, I've given up:

Nothing on that list (at least nothing I was doing previously) but shell scripts and, oddly enough, C. I used to (and arguably still do) consider myself fluent enough in C to use it for little one-off programs whenever I had some random problem to solve involving a computer, but Perl is a lot easier and more flexible, and Java's too inconvenient for small programs.
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