Show me another language where you can download the contents of a web page, scan it for a complex text pattern, stuff all of the entries into an array, and dump them to the console in so few lines of code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wI through this script together while trying to figure out what regular expression syntax would work to extract all of the entries that I have commented on at my Slashdot user profile. It's not even as compact as it could be either, but then uber-compact Perl code has a tendency to offend my Java/C#-developer sensibilities. Though, there is something to be said about a programming language that can be so succinct that you can express the process of breaking a DVD's encryption in about seven lines of code. When you can read that, you can probably natively understand Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn...
use strict;
open(SLASHDOT, '<slashdot.html');
my $data;
while (<SLASHDOT>)
{
$data .= $_;
}
close(SLASHDOT);
$_ = $data;
my (@stuff) = /attached to \<a href=\"[\/\:\?\.\;\w\%\=]+\"\>[^\>^\<]+\<\/a\>/g;
print "You have commented on ~$#stuff entires\n\n\n";
foreach my $s (@stuff)
{
print "$s\n";
}


Ia! Ia! C'thulu fhtagn!
Love the tagline at the top of the page, by the way.
Python?