On 1/22/07, Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 8:12, ed wrote:
> > heh, perl is the language of choice for a linux/unix administrator.
>
> In my experience it seems that perl is rapidly losing ground to cleaner
> languages like ruby and python. Also, I suspect that the primary tool for
> most linux/unix admins is still just good old fashion /bin/sh shell
> scripting.
>
> I spent nearly 2 years doing part-time perl programming... Ugh... You really
> have to be something of a masochist to use it when scripting languages like
> python are available.
I dunno, I still enjoy Perl over Python... for the same reasons I
prefer C and C++ over Java. :-)
-- Brett
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