I think that 99% of the times the same action could be done in different ways, with different programs. I think LPI should accept awk/perl based answers but should not enforce the usage of any of the two, at least in LPIC1. It could be a topic for more advanced LPI certification, imho.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:01 AM, G. Matthew Rice <m...@starnix.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'd vote to include awk, but not perl. For the simple reason that every > > question I can think of for perl tests perl's syntax; and this is a > > sysadmin rating exam, not a programmer exam. > > Although, Perl used to be in the purview of the sysadmin...Now, it's > Python or Ruby, right? > > Awk is a huge can of worms, though. It _is_ a programming language. > > Just my two cents. > > PS - I think awk is fun. > > --matt > > > > -- > G. Matthew Rice <mr...@lpi.org> gpg id: EF9AAD20 > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > -- Fabio Alessandro Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (CET/CEST) Phone: +39 348 2668873 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: fabioloc...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: B1CD 2318 532D 57D6 56FA E409 64DE 5B09 C09A 145F Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia
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