Perl or Shell?

[MHJ]

Maybe not so much bad as much as "less optimum" of a choice. It has its positives and negatives

[LissaValerian]

I would have to disagree with most of the sentiment here. I use both perl and shell for my scripting. PERL can be very powerful if you know how to use it. I've worked for a major multimedia news company and I can tell you that A LOT of their behind the scenes stuff is written in PERL. I hardly think it is a dying language.

I think that both are good/handy to learn and it's valuable to know both. When you know both, you'll know which is better in what particular situation.

Perl Rules!

[Jordan]

Also check into PHP CLI. I recently blogged about it at PHP CLI

If you already know PHP this will work perfect.

[Aereshaa]

I prefer perl for small tasks, and shell scripting with zsh for big tasks.

[Tor]

Is zsh easier/better than bash shell scripting? I've never used zsh before.