C C is a very powerful, efficient but terse systems-level programming language.
It is a well-understood language for which there are several available compilers . Perl Perhaps the most religiously used language on the Internet, perl offers a wide range of amazingly flexible features to make complex parsing and report generation delightfully trivial, while still nicely capable for low level systems programming. Python Python is not just another interpreted programming language. The graphical installation tool for RedHat 6.1 was written mostly using Python. The Unix shell is able to do much more than invoke simple commands.