Jesus christ.  Beginning ruby is a breeze compared to C++.  And you 
should see some perl in ruby.  In any language, there are always 
multiple ways to accomplish things.   With experience you will hit on 
the simplest way.  In fact, this board is really a competition to post 
the simplest way to do something.

Personally, I prefer python to all others.

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