Yves,
I teach a scripting/automation system admin course at a local college.
What I am finding is that the language used depends on:
* if you primarily windows - powershell
* if you are primarily linux then
** if you are younger - python
** if you are older - perl
Being an older type who is cross platform I use mostly perl and
powershell with bash/awk for simple things on linux. In my current
class, I have 2 students using python, 1 using a mix of bash and python,
and 4 using powershell.
cheers,
ski
On 05/12/2016 03:38 PM, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
A lot of people love to hate bash, and there are good reasons for it, but it
seems that there isn't an obvious replacement for it.
At some point it looked like perl was going to be it, then depending on the
local preferences some shops use either python or ruby, heavy JVM shop often
use groovy, while more and more shops now even use js or go...
I find bash (or any other UNIX shell) much more natural for simple scripts, I
don't even mind all gotchas (set -e, super weak typing, every var is gobal,
etc..), but do hate how bad it is to manipulate data, and the difficulty to
organize code.
What do *you* use? Do you see any clear winner to replace it on the horizon?
--
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it
connected to the entire universe" John Muir
Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803
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