Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:49:24 +0100 From: Alex <FreeBSD@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1012083607.1cac06@mired.org> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, Wayne Pascoe <usenet@penguinpowered.org.uk>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[4]: what is a good language for system administration? Message-ID: <13736540512.20020123004924@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> In-Reply-To: <15436.37910.635122.378864@guru.mired.org> References: <15436.37910.635122.378864@guru.mired.org>
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Hello Mike, Monday, January 21, 2002, 11:20:06 PM, you wrote: MM> Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:07:25AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: >> > Alfatrion <alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> types: >> <SNIP> I didn't write any of the (>> >) folowing: >> > 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. -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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