Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by >> perl. is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? > > I am surprised this thread has not started a mini-flame war.
We are working on it ... > About the best you can say is, Perl is one of the more > popular scripting languages. Trying to pin down the "best" > will fail because it is opinion based. I think the true professional should be able to read/edit both and be pretty fluent in at least one. (Here, by professional I mean in terms of skills and dedication, not necessarily making a living doing it.) Perl is cooler and more old-school, maybe ultimately more powerful and creative from what you guys say about it, but if you don't know either I think the ease of learning it, development speed, the volume of people doing it and available resources to help you with that online, that favors Python as the 1st choice. > Next, you might ask which is the best editor to use on Unix > & Linux. That should really stir the pot :) Emacs for > the win! You better believe it. It is based on Lisp! But I have respect for the Vi(m) people as well, for sure, not sure exactly what the currently prefered Vim-style editor implementation is? neovim? Here are the most popular channels on Libera right now. See arrows for editors, unless I missed someone. Emacs (position 16) has 854, Vim (22) has 705 and neovim (41) 490. However combined Vim has 1195 which would be position 6 - overlap not considered ... I you like that table (the enumeration), I made it with this: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/enum.el [yanked last] Note the `cl-loop' at line 27 - I mentioned it earlier, CL functionality implemented in Elisp - and note especially the "unlispy" syntax - this as someone touched upon, that in Perl you can do the same thing in different ways - here we see a miniature language (the unlispy syntax, which is imperative/procedural in style, only better), replicating the behavior of another language CL, implemented by and used in Elisp! Still not convinced? Okay, use Vim, really, it's cool ... 1. #linux 2184 2. #fedora 1696 3. #python 1688 4. #libera 1577 5. #archlinux 1474 6. #ubuntu 1146 7. #networking 1035 8. ##rust 968 9. #ansible 894 10. #security 884 11. #gentoo 875 12. #bash 867 13. #git 857 14. #c 857 15. #postgresql 856 16. #emacs 854 <-- Emacs 17. #debian 843 18. ##programming 760 19. #go-nuts 718 20. #openbsd 717 21. #freebsd 714 22. #vim 705 <-- Vim 23. #thelounge 705 24. #hardware 702 25. #haskell 680 26. #wireguard 668 27. #weechat 649 28. #lobsters 623 29. #plasma-bigscreen 613 30. ##math 609 31. #matrix 608 32. #raspberrypi 580 33. #znc 578 34. #C++ 573 35. #docker 556 36. #monero 530 37. #systemd 525 38. ##electronics 510 39. #podman 499 40. ##chat 495 41. #neovim 490 <-- neovim 42. #hamradio 485 ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; this file: ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/enum.el (require 'cl-lib) (require 'subr-x) (defun enum (&optional beg end suf) "Enumerate each line from BEG to END, counting from one. Use SUF as a suffix to the digits inserted. BEG defaults to the beginning of the buffer, END defaults to the end of the buffer, SUF defaults to \". \"" (interactive `(,@(if (use-region-p) (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (list nil nil) ) ,(when current-prefix-arg (read-string "suffix: ") ))) (or beg (setq beg (point-min))) (or end (setq end (point-max))) (or suf (setq suf ". ")) (goto-char beg) (let*((lines (count-lines beg end)) (pad-len (length (number-to-string lines))) ) (cl-loop for line from 1 to lines do (goto-char (line-beginning-position)) (insert (format "%s%s" (string-pad (number-to-string line) pad-len nil t) suf) ) (forward-line) ))) (provide 'enum) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
