The easiest scripting language to learn in 24 hours?

Question

I need to learn a scripting language in one day in order to do some work with files / word processing. Mostly they write regular expressions, doing some grep work. Which should I go for? I have to do this in one day, so I'm looking for some kind of syntactically simpler scripting language. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Perl: http://www.perl.org/

Groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org/

BUT. If the work is simple, you can just write a shell script

Answer 2

Well Perl is traditionally used for this kind of thing, Python is also another option for a scripting language that is quite popular and capable of doing this work.

Depending on your platform and how simple the task is, even a shell script may be sufficient.

Answer 3

This is a barely reasonable question for SO, be careful when asking such topics, unanswered questions.

Speaking, Python is considered one of the friendliest languages, and any language can do what you want. Python will not be as concise as Perl says, but it may be easier to understand what is happening in Python.

You can also use your shell language, such as bash, for very simple things.

Answer 4

I think Bash and Awk are very interesting and easy to learn, always present in every unix system that you can use.

Answer 5

Javascript (see this question )

Answer 6

Perl is a very old language. This was a big deal at one time, but now Perl is definitely not. Its strength is program performance, which means it is more difficult to write programs.

Ruby is a good language, perhaps the easiest language to write programs. But ... for an advanced programmer. It is actually not easy to learn. It has some "weird" things unusual for other languages.

Maybe you need Python. Its easy to learn and easy to program.

Groovy may also be so, but I don't know much about this language. And this is because Groovy is not very popular. This means that it will be difficult for you to find something if you need help or something like that.

Answer 7

Check out this topic: The Simplest Scripting Language

In my personal opinion,

• Javascript
• Perl
• Python etc.