[dns-operations] Python or Ruby

[John Dickinson]

> On 9 Feb 2015, at 15:34, Brett <brettcarr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I find myself thinking that perhaps I should attempt to learn a modern scripting language and seem to of settled on the choice of Ruby or Python (though I could probably still be 

Your ex-colleague wrote dnsruby https://rubygems.org/gems/dnsruby

Perl has a very mature DNS library http://www.net-dns.org/

Why a scripting language? Libraries like LDNS from nlnetlabs are very useable.
C++ is very easy to use with C++14, STL and Boost. There is really no substitute for C though :)

John