What is the best language for information retrieval?

SQL - Structured Query Language. For the record, I did not see "programming language" written anywhere. As to Python for hackers and Java for real engineers, let me say that engineers that use Java tend to do some big messes, said from experience of correcting such engineers.

Python is much more modern and if you know it enough, the are a lot of ways to make your code high performance while keeping it clean and simple. No, I don't like, nor use Python. Actually, I'm more proficient with Java than Python...

It seems like he needs to do a lot of string manipulation. Are you really suggesting SQL? – zoul Feb 3 at 10:49 @zoul - I suggested SQL for "retrieving information" (and probably storing it).

SQL memory tables are quite efficient and just as accessible. – Christian Sciberras Feb 3 at 10:56.

If you need to work with text, Perl is very good in that and fast, too. And there is a quite modern and clean OOP system for Perl called Moose.

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