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by mattikl 4488 days ago
Perl is a great tool for scripting, but calling it "unmatched" is hard to justify. Knowing Python or Ruby well, you can be efficient scripting with them, and that's what scripting is all about, getting the job done fast.

Higher Order Perl is one of the best books I've read, but I feel that's much more about software development than scripting, teaching the fundamental techniques in functional programming.