Yet, system administration is still tied to the shell and the old toolset, despite the astounding advantages of moving to a modern high-level language. This is

Yet, system administration is still tied to the shell and the old toolset, despite the astounding advantages of moving to a modern high-level language. This is where I stopped reading. Python's great, but the shell and the old toolset is still more useful for many sys. admin. tasks because the tasks are one off things and each command is typically more higher-level still than Python, e.g. join(1) and comm(1).