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On Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 6:46:08 PM UTC+10, mockturtle wrote:
> As you can guess, my language of choice is Ada, but for small things (often "fast and dirty") or to extract stuff from text files, I use Ruby which I prefer over its direct competitor (much more popular) Python. 
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whether it's small and dirty or something big, PL/I is a great all-rounder.