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It's pretty much impossible to be a sysadmin without writing some software, though I acknowledge we sysadmins have a tendency to use duct tape (there's a reason
by bandrami 10y ago
It's pretty much impossible to be a sysadmin without writing some software, though I acknowledge we sysadmins have a tendency to use duct tape (there's a reason Perl is the sysadmin language) rather than a more solid adhesive. But whereas I've met tons of developers who have never maintained an installed system, I've never met a sysadmin who has not written a good deal of code.
- koffiezet 10y ago> there's a reason Perl is the sysadmin language That would be mostly Python these days. If someone here would touch Perl on my systems, they're gonna have a very bad day. Sure I wrote stuff in Perl back in the days, but those days are over. I see this as Perl's problem: to be good enough at Perl, you'd have to frequently use it, but Perl is in my eyes only suitable for quick hacky run-once scripts - which should not be written frequently, so you shouldn't be good at Perl. My Perl is pretty damn rusty these days. If someone is still writing large scripts/apps in Perl these days, I question their judgement in technologies and ability to keep up with the times. Sure you can write larger scripts in Perl - but what's the point? You have to take care not to make things unreadable, while when using something like Python, it's much harder to make a script that's unreadable.
- bandrami 10y agoIDK. My blog is in catalyst; I really like it for that.