Richard Chycoski wrote: > Neil Neely wrote: > >> I've been using puppet for 8 months and have yet to learn Ruby[1]. >> >> > Yes, but this applies to people who have been using Perl [of > fill-in-the-blank-package-or-language] for *years* without learning to > use it! :-) > > It's a question of how much can you do without learning the underlying > language of the package? What can you *NOT* do without it? > > Caveat: I don't know Ruby or Puppet currently, but I'm not sure the counter-argument holds (others may judge better).
For example, there is no need to know anything about Ocaml (thank God) to use unison, nor is there any need to know C to use KDE or Gnome, etc. Puppet may be in a different space where leveraging the underlying language gains you tangible benefit, but maybe to be a productive netizen there's no need. $.02 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
