我想做的事情包括以各种形式(二进制，十进制，十六进制)显示任意数据的数据块，将数据从一个字节转换为另一个，等等。也就是说，您通常会使用C或汇编的东西，但我寻找一种语言，允许非常快速地编写一小段代码，用于高度特定的一次性目的。
有什么建议么？
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Things I want to do include presenting arbitrary chunks of the data in varIoUs forms (binary,decimal,hex),convert data from one endianess to another,etc. That is,things you normally would use C or assembly for,but I’m looking for a language which allows for writing tiny pieces of code for highly specific,one-time purposes very quickly.
好吧，虽然看起来反直觉，我发现erlang非常适合这一点，即由于其对pattern matching的强大支持，甚至是字节和位(称为“Erlang Bit Syntax”)。这使得很容易创建甚至非常高级的程序，处理在字节甚至位置级别上检查和操作数据：
Since 2001,the functional language Erlang comes with a byte-oriented datatype (called binary) and with constructs to do pattern matching on a binary.
并引用informIT.com：
(Erlang) Pattern matching really starts to get
fun when combined with the binary
type. Consider an application that
receives packets from a network and
then processes them. The four bytes in
a packet might be a network byte-order
packet type identifier. In Erlang,you
would just need a single processPacket
function that could convert this into
a data structure for internal
processing. It would look something
like this:
processPacket(<<1:32/big,RestOfPacket>>) ->
% Process type one packets
...
;
processPacket(<<2:32/big,RestOfPacket>>) ->
% Process type two packets
...
所以，erlang内置了对模式匹配的支持，它是一个功能性的语言是非常有表现力的，例如在erlang中实现ueencode：
uuencode(BitStr) -> << (X+32):8 || <<X:6>> <= BitStr >>. uudecode(Text) -> << (X-32):6 || <<X:8>> <= Text >>.
有关介绍，请参阅Bitlevel Binaries and Generalized Comprehensions in Erlang.您可能还想查看以下一些指针：
> Parsing Binaries with erlang,lamers inside
> More File Processing with Erlang
> Learning Erlang and Adobe Flash format same time
> Large Binary Data is (not) a Weakness of Erlang
> Programming Efficiently with Binaries and Bit Strings
> Erlang bit syntax and network programming
> erlang,the language for network programming (1)
> Erlang,the language for network programming Issue 2: binary pattern matching
> An Erlang MIDI File Reader/Writer
> Erlang Bit Syntax
> Comprehending endianness
> Playing with Erlang
> Erlang: Pattern Matching Declarations vs Case Statements/Other
> A Stream Library using Erlang Binaries
> Bit-level Binaries and Generalized Comprehensions in Erlang
> Applications,Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Bit Stream Programming in Erlang