I have a small side project I want to write and have yet to decide on a language. Ultimately, I want a way to access and/or modify the clipboard in a platform-independent way.
I’d like to learn a new language to do this, preferably something that:
- I’ll learn a lot from.
- Will look good on my resume.
…and I’m leaning towards a functional language of some kind (Lisp would be ideal). That said, I might also want to experiment with interfacing C with other languages, so a C library would also be acceptable. Are there any libraries out there that would do what I’m looking for in a language that meets the above criteria?
One approach to this is to use Java’s clipboard class. This gives me a pretty wide selection of languages to choose from.