From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 15:49:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4AC37B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from 213.10.151.186 ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GQD66D00.UPN; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:49:25 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:49:24 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <13736540512.20020123004924@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Cliff Sarginson , Wayne Pascoe , Subject: Re[4]: what is a good language for system administration? In-Reply-To: <15436.37910.635122.378864@guru.mired.org> References: <15436.37910.635122.378864@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello Mike, Monday, January 21, 2002, 11:20:06 PM, you wrote: 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: >> > 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