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Pete Norvig said it best 

Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 15:52 GMT

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

What about a reliable language... 

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 01:13 GMT

...like Ada? An Ada 2005 compiler is out with a free IDE (released under GPL) at https://libre.adacore.com/gps/

PCRE 

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 15:40 GMT

Boffin

PCRE isn't a programming language - it stands for "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions".