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Fantasy league, what langauge should I use?


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I run a small NASCAR fantasy league on the PlayStation.com forums and each Monday/Tuesday I have to manually check the results and update the points for 26 players. I've been doing this for over a year now. So, I've decided I'm going to take the plunge and try and make something that can pull the results from NASCAR.com, and have the program/app update the points automatically. The players will submit their picks by a set time, and I'll include our custom points system...I just need to know what language to use. I want to host this on my site, so something small that won't take up too much CPU/Mem would be nice.

I have to head to work so I look forward to a few responses when I get home tonight. Oh, and I already have a fairly complete list of features/functions that I want this little project to have, so If you need more information, I'll be sure to post it when I get home.

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Perl is probably the best solution when it comes to text extraction from websites and text manipulation in general.

Some modules you may be interested in are Lwp::Simple and WWW::Mechanize.

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Perl is probably the best solution when it comes to text extraction from websites and text manipulation in general.

Some modules you may be interested in are Lwp::Simple and WWW::Mechanize.

Thanks. I already feel like I'm in way over my head. Going to see if I know anyone that's good with code and see if they have some free time.

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To be honest, you haven't received many responses because the language selection doesn't really matter much. They all have positive and negatives. You should look at various languages and see which one you want to work with. If you're not happy with the language you're working in, you're not going to be happy with your site.

Plus, you can always mix and match languages. The site could be written in PHP, Ruby, or whatever else, while the jobs that extract data from various sources could be written in Perl.

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