.Net developers, what is your go-to scripting language?

[bzsparks]

I'm wondering what the majority of people use as their primary scripting language for quick tasks?

[lewax00]

Python. It's quite easy to get things done with it without thinking too much.

[Dalek Dave]

Javascript when using VB. VBA when using Excel. (I know it isn't a full scripting language, but I think it fulfills that function).

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[realJSOP]

English. I tried writing a script in French once, but the actors gave up trying to read it, and went home.

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[lewax00]

English is the high-level scripting language used by managers and consumers, which is then interpreted by programmers and translated into a lower level language like C#.

[Sander Rossel]

Was that the script that said "*gunfire* FIN"? :)

It's an OO world.

[AspDotNetDev]

C'est la vie.

Martin Fowler wrote:

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

[SimulationofSai]

I agree. And it's portable too.

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[CalvinHobbies]

English is a broken language, constant debugging, and still doesn't look or sound right once you are done with it. you know, like a Ford.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

That depends on the task. BAT files Perl

[dazfuller]

Python, sometimes JavaScript given that Node.js now runs on windows but Python is still my go-to-guy

[daleofcourse]

I had to recently rewrite some old utilities we had on Linux as the C source code had gone missing; Python was my go to language.

[hoernchenmeister]

Are you sure they went home and not that they did surrender?

[Gary Wheeler]

.BATch and VBScript. If I can't do it with those two, I write an app.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Paul A Howes]

Ruby and IronRuby

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[Fabio Franco]

I don't use scripts. C# on windows forms accomplish most of my quick tasks very efficiently.

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[StarNamer work]

For scripting of command line (or similar) tasks I use Perl.

[Brad Stiles]

BAT, Perl, Powershell, depending on the task. Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli

[Karl Sanford]

I find that I've been using Powershell more and more. I really like being able to work with .NET objects in script to quickly test something as I work on a larger project, rather than firing up another solution to test 3 lines of code.

"It's like the sixties, but with less hope."

[eslsys]

Powershell, Javascript - very much depends on what needs doing