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Well put, as long as they are responsible system administrators Perl will live. Python/Ruby would never play well in an admin's toolbox.
by mlLK 18y ago
Well put, as long as they are responsible system administrators Perl will live. Python/Ruby would never play well in an admin's toolbox.
- graemep 18y agoWhy?
- charcoal 18y agoPerl has many features familiar to users of sh/bash. For admins who often deal with shell scripts, it's an easy reach to use Perl for all sorts of little things. That said, I think you can still be responsible and use Python instead. ;) Might take you a few more keystrokes though.
- evilneanderthal 18y agoagree with that. perl is tremendous for sysadmin tasks. we've had 90% complete python tools rewritten from scratch in perl because perl is so superior. disclaimer: i'm a recovering ex-sysadmin
- charcoal 18y agoWait. If I'm reading that right, you had utils written in Python that were 90% finished but then rewrote them in Perl and got them working. What about Python was getting you stuck at 90%?
- lacker 18y agoEven at Google, where the preferred scripting language is Python by far, many system administration tasks are handled with Perl.