Joseph Mocker <[email protected]> wrote:

> While I don't entirely agree with UNIX admin, I am sort of concerned 
> with the growing number of scripting environments that are now required 
> to make [Open]Solaris run.
>
> First I realized that Perl was needed was when I discovered the kstat 
> was rewritten in Perl, which kind of bummed my Operations folks out to 
> have to install Perl just for a few utilities that had previously been 
> written in C. (I ended up rewriting kstat for them in C, pretty easily).
>
> Now Python is needed for IPS, Xen, probably more. What other language 
> platforms are necessary?

+1 and BTW: I don't see that software written in scripting languages is easier 
to maintain than C programs.

Jörg

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