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Perl is still a better system administration language than Python. Many Unix wrappers in Python like shutil and subprocess are just not very good. Python remov
by flanrx 2y ago
Perl is still a better system administration language than Python. Many Unix wrappers in Python like shutil and subprocess are just not very good.
Python removes you from the system. Perl, like shell, keeps you in close contact with the system.
If a Linux/BSD distribution uses Perl in the base system, it is a plus for me. Unfortunately, most Linux distributions dropped Perl when they became bloated.