[Lazamataz]

I might be thinking of Perl then. One of them looks like you angrily tossed scrabble tiles to the ground. :)

[867V309]

I might be thinking of Perl then.

Right you are.

Perl is an interpreted language, not very human readable.    It has been nicknamed "the Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages" because of its flexibility and power, and possibly also because of its "ugliness".

[ConservativeMind]

I did 2/3 of my work for my masters-level distributed and parallel programming class in Perl, with the remaining in C. This was in 2001.

It was the first time I’d used either, but I was floored at how easy it was to do the same stuff in Perl that I’d started doing in C. (I knew a number of other languages at the time.)

Oh, and I can add that I got an “A” in it and it was a six-week, compressed 1/2 summer class.

I still can’t believe how I did it. Very cool stuff!