I was asked yesterday (and not for the first time) what my favourite programming language is - and I have to say that it depends on what I'm doing at the time. That's not a "political" answer in any way - as we choose to train only on languages that we're very happy indeed with.

I've just had a little "exercise" to do. I have a list of place names in Mexico, and (on the following line) the dialling code for each of them within the country - for example


And I needed the data reformatted at one place per line, to include the extra digits for the international code too. Easy - the Perl program was just


And the output produced:


We're also often asked how we maintain so much information on this web site AND run courses every week (Tcl last week, Python next ...) and the answer is easy - by using Modern open source languages to provide us with helpful tools to do the job. I've used Perl for this page, and an hour or so ago I was adding data under a PHP page


See also Topicalization in Perl - ideal for short data munging scripts

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