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All true and wouldn't fault anyone for choosing Ruby but by Ray of Light 07/04/2008, 2:23am PDT Ginormous perl userbase increases the chances that someone has done work for you in the form of a library. It's worth having a look, at least. For this problem domain, the clunky parts of perl do not come into play so much (I'd count Unicode, Object Orientation, and manipulation of exotic data structures). You take a bunch of directives as input, shunt them into environment variables and command-line arguments and registry values and databases whatever, run your tests, and report back somewhere. It's programmatically straightforward, unless you have to manufacture your own shunts. So I would say choose a language that minimizes the amount of specification-laden glue code you're forced to write.

Scripting of applications (on multiple platforms?) by Fullofkittens 07/03/2008, 7:32pm PDT     Re: Scripting of applications (on multiple platforms?) by Entropy Stew 07/03/2008, 10:08pm PDT     PYTHON! by motherfuckerfoodeater 07/03/2008, 10:54pm PDT         This is the major downside to python :( NT by Entropy Stew 07/04/2008, 10:42pm PDT     AutoHotKey $0 by Ray of Light 07/03/2008, 11:28pm PDT         and I just read the other replies by Ray of Light 07/03/2008, 11:44pm PDT             Perl has grown long in the tooth and Perl 6 is going to be more complicated than by Entropy Stew 07/04/2008, 12:46am PDT                 All true and wouldn't fault anyone for choosing Ruby but by Ray of Light 07/04/2008, 2:23am PDT                     Shaking hands, doffing hat, etc. by Entropy Stew 07/04/2008, 4:03am PDT                         While you guys agree to disagree... by Fullofkittens 07/04/2008, 9:12pm PDT                             Use all three together NT by Job Security 07/04/2008, 9:32pm PDT                                 I'm too stupid for that. NT by Fullofkittens 07/04/2008, 9:39pm PDT                             Tying it all together by Ray of Light 07/04/2008, 11:05pm PDT                                 Test AutoHotKey message... by Fullofkittens 07/05/2008, 3:51pm PDT                                     (source) by Fullofkittens 07/05/2008, 4:02pm PDT                                         Well done Clint! NT by Clint Stalker 07/05/2008, 4:20pm PDT                                         A new forum spammer is born. >:( NT by Fussbett 07/05/2008, 7:42pm PDT                                             Did I mention that my new job is spamming messageboards? by Fullofkittens 07/05/2008, 9:40pm PDT                                                 Source by motherfuckerfoodeater 07/05/2008, 10:14pm PDT                                         Re: (source) by Ray of Light 07/06/2008, 2:13am PDT                                             Re: (source) by Fullofkittens 07/06/2008, 9:48am PDT                                                 fixed quote tags by Fullofkittens 07/06/2008, 9:50am PDT     Incidentally, I got this job and am quitting my current job tomorrow. by Fullofkittens 07/13/2008, 11:18am PDT         So you're just changing jobs. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 07/13/2008, 1:54pm PDT             Yes, I'm one of the employed Caltrops posters. NT by Fullofkittens 07/13/2008, 3:03pm PDT                 I also am. ^_^ NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 07/13/2008, 3:19pm PDT