In the scope of WinDirStat I am currently migrating our language system to a more generic text-based approach. The final file format has not yet been decided, but it’s likely going to be XML. Perl just enabled me to write a little script to extract strings from the resource script files, by “parsing” them. Regular expressions and Perl for the win 
// Oliver
Perl as language to work with text is definitely on of the best language out for that purpose.