I recall when I first read Pragmatic Programmer that they suggested using scripting languages to make you a more productive programmer.
I am in a quandary putting this into practice.
I want to know specific ways that using Python or Ruby can make me a more productive .NET developer.
One specific way per answer, and even better if you can say whether I could use Python or Ruby or Both for it.
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Advanced Text Processing
Traditional strengths of awk and perl. You can just glue together a bunch of regular expressions to create a simple data-mining system on the go.
I'm a .NET Programmer. What are specific uses of Python and/or Ruby for that will make me more productive?