title: What to use to process JSON responses on a command line?
body: <p>I have a nightly executable that will run on a windows or linux server that will be downloading information from various web sources and one of those sources contains a JSON response.  This executable will download the information and connect to a SQL server database to update the appropriate records.</p>
  
  <p>I come from a C#, windows programming background so my natural inclination is to use the JSON.net libraries or create custom code to parse the JSON text using C#.  But I'd really rather use the appropriate scripting language to take advantage of the <code>eval()</code> statement to process the JSON.  </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a suggestion for which scripting language and development environment that would be best suited for this kind of server process?  It doesn't matter to me if it runs on the linux or windows server, I just want to use the best tool available.</p>