Ruby and Python break backward compatibility too often even with minor language version upgrade. It's harder to maintain working language version across servers

Ruby and Python break backward compatibility too often even with minor language version upgrade. It's harder to maintain working language version across servers than do real sysadmin tasks. Perl rocks and robust to that. See Perl equvalent to Ruby's Capistrano/Puppet/Chef.. or Python's Fabric/func.. Rex - http://rexify.org/ http://rexify.org/