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For many, Perl is great for system administration related tasks that are more than two or three pages of bash.
by Tepix 3y ago
For many, Perl is great for system administration related tasks that are more than two or three pages of bash.
- DonHopkins 3y agoPerl's usefulness has a narrow peak like the Balmer curve, because Python is better for system administration related tasks that are more than four or five pages of Perl. And everyone knows how system administration scripts always grow to more than five pages, so it's better to just start in Python.
- Tepix 3y agoI'm not so sure about Python's advantage over Perl regarding sysadmin tasks...
- ilyt 3y agoIt's a blessing if you need to manage a range of legacy systems, because Perl "just works" while Python is crapshoot.
- nocman 3y agoThat might be true if you already don't like writing Perl, but I have many years of experience writing system administration scripts in Perl, and I'd pick it for that task over Python any day. I can understand why someone who prefers Python would go that route, but it is definitely not more capable than Perl in that domain.