With my sysadmin hat on I do have a bias towards scripting languages that ship with the OS. Not increasing the OS/distro footprint is one of my 'things'. I lea

With my sysadmin hat on I do have a bias towards scripting languages that ship with the OS. Not increasing the OS/distro footprint is one of my 'things'. I lean more towards Python these days because of tools like SaltStack and Ansible and great library support, and because it fits my brain better. So with Linux, I'd probably recommend Python as it is a key part of most distros (like Perl still is too, but eg Ruby isn't). But on OpenBSD Python isn't a key builtin part of the OS while Perl is, so I'd still recommend Perl for an OpenBSD admin.