Re: What’s your favorite programming language and why?

[stbalbach]

GNU awk - sometimes considered a "toy" language but far from it these days. 
I've done entire websites, http servers and OAuth. The syntax is easier than 
Nim, runs nearly as fast, and being a single executable and POSIX can be found 
pre-installed most places. Used for all my scripting work and smallish tools. I 
use Nim when the program outgrows it - and with the 'Nim for Awk Programmers' 
module, it is trivial to rewrite in Nim.