Noob Question

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:46:42AM -0500,
 Oleg Bogdanov <Oleg.Bogdanov at bwater.com> wrote 
 a message of 149 lines which said:

> what do I learn first?  Awk or Perl?  Something else?

awk seems extremely outdated. At a time, its strength was to be always
available on any Unix machine (the time when installing Perl was quite
an achievment). Now that Perl or Python are on every Unix box (and, if
they are not, can be installed with a single command, which always
works), there is no reason to learn awk.

I vote for Python, just to start a nice language war.