From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 17:56:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E877137B402 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:56:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16539 invoked by uid 100); 23 Jan 2002 01:56:02 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15438.6193.320790.289374@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:56:01 -0600 To: Alex Cc: "Mike Meyer" , Cliff Sarginson , Wayne Pascoe , Subject: Re: Re[4]: what is a good language for system administration? In-Reply-To: <13736540512.20020123004924@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> References: <15436.37910.635122.378864@guru.mired.org> <13736540512.20020123004924@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex types: > MM> Cliff Sarginson types: > >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:07:25AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> > Alfatrion types: > >> > > I didn't write any of the (>> >) folowing: Correct. I wrote that. I don't think anything of yours made it into the reply you sent to me. > >> > True. There's a couple of Python-specific remote method invocation > >> > implementations floating around, but I haven't investigated them. I > >> > like the ability to choose the language appropriate for each object > >> > that comes with using CORBA. > > >> - (Painful as I find this to say) learn Perl. There is such a huge > >> amount of canned modules for Perl available, and it is increasingly > >> used where people used to write "C" for something too slow to be > >> done in the shell, that I don;t think there are any other players > >> seriously in the game yet. > > MM> I think Perl is more useful on your resume than as a system > MM> administration language. On the other hand, you're almost certain to > MM> encounter it most places, so being able to read and debug it will be > MM> handy. > > I have heared that, you cound't read perl any more, if you don't do it > for about 6 months. It depends on the Perl. And how handy the Camel book is. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message