Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:16:41 -0500 From: "Ron Hensley" <ronh@intercom.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Message-ID: <003201c1a158$852912a0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201192024020.20769-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Perl is a hideously ugly language that should be taken out and shot. Since > your soliciting opinions :-) Python is a much easier, cleaner, and nicer > language for sys admin tasksfor me then perl. Chuckle, I totally agree there. Ive been an avid C/C++ Programmer for many many years. I looked over Perl and just couldn't get past all that using of RegExpressions just to parse an array of chars (String) and much prefer the C Standard Library of functions. The big place Perl shines is the ability to work with operating system level commands, however It's very easy to do the same in C with popen(), though a tad more wordy of course. I found Java/Javascripting to be equally as ugly in syntax. I admit though Perl has its virtues and following and I wouldn't mind getting past the hurdles of learning it. As has been stated there's an awful lot of existing code in Perl to make use of for those fluent in it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBPEooiFFb04N5DzUjEQK0iQCeIAdxyrqK1xcpJ5AZ61KmnJ+8RycAn20G vD6B8u2k00JzM2Moh+6+ztn+ =TsxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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