For something "simple", I would expect most people pick their favourite general purpose language, as any non-domain-specific language will do the trick. I would expect that in this forum, the majority of the people would pick Perl for the task.

I'd expect that in the general programming community, the majority of the programmers would not pick Perl (because they either don't know the language, don't like the language, or have a different favourite language).

And I'm not surprised there are people that pick C.