On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Thanks for all the responses, I think I will learn C after all, > it seems to be the most popular for the linux world. GLib is a nice friendly library of hashtables, safe strings with useful operations, memory managers, and growable arrays. It goes well with C. If you need to do an enormous amount of string processing use perl instead.