> > I once had to script something that would run based on the sunrise and > sunset times of where the machine was located. Since we live on a > spherical planet that is tilted 23 1/2 degrees, sunrise and sunset > times don't stay the same. Of course since I knew math and astronomy, > I was given the task to figure it out since the previous solution of > just periodically modifying a cron job was not going to cut it in the > long run. Rather than write some serious calculations in bash, I > poked around for perl modules and found someone had already done that > hard part for me. > > http://search.cpan.org/~rkhill/Astro-Sunrise-0.91/Sunrise.pm<http://search.cpan.org/%7Erkhill/Astro-Sunrise-0.91/Sunrise.pm> > > And behold, my first ever perl script came to life and the customer > was very happy. > > I think you'd be happy with either Perl or Python (or both). One of the huge advantages of Perl at the moment is CPAN. I can't tell you how many times I wish I had CPAN when I was working in Python. That being said, I really like Python. Python+CPAN would be a dream come true. Yes I know about cheeseshop, pypi etc, but they aren't the same.
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