I guess Perl just outclasses the others listed, so it's not fair to put them in the same game. You don't put a Formula 1 race car in a stock-car race, right?
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2012 and still writing effective hta (html+css+vbscript) applications... yeah, that's right, i said vbscript...
i would prefer perl, but, vbscript runs native on pretty much all versions of MS... so, i save the perl for linux/unix.