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I saw the light[tm] too late. My only real dealing was ~2001 and fixing shitty cgi-bin-webscripts in Perl. PHP4 was a huge improvement over that :) As the yea
by wink 8y ago
I saw the light[tm] too late.
My only real dealing was ~2001 and fixing shitty cgi-bin-webscripts in Perl. PHP4 was a huge improvement over that :)
As the years went on and I did more admin work I've come to really enjoy having perl5 available basically anywhere - the power of python with the availability of shell scripts.. but without the hassle. I'm also kinda sad they didn't write puppet in Perl but chose Ruby. I bet it would have prevented all my "too slow" and "needs too much RAM" problems with it...
- donavanm 8y agoMy memories over a decade old here but ... as I recall there was an early perl based protopuppet that luke wrote and used in his consulting roles in the early 2000s. This was after splitting from cfengine and moving towards a declarative model. For better or worse Ruby really does seem a good fit for the puppet use case. A flexible DSL for expressing config intent, coupled with a very extensible/inheritance based parse & apply model.