What text processing language will a pragmatist programmer choose today?

Question

Perl

Andrew Hunt and David Thomas in their book recommend learning a language for word processing so that you can more easily manage your source code. They themselves recommend Perl, but the book was written a long time ago.
What is the most convenient language / tool for word processing now?
And how to use it under Windows?

Answer 1

Perl, in general, has not gone away. There were no major breakthroughs in this area.
You can also look towards sed and awk (under Windows via cygwin).

Answer 2

python to your liking