From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 4:22:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.retemail.es (smtp03.iddeo.es [62.81.186.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAC937B416 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 04:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from conway.localdomain ([62.174.66.124]) by smtp03.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.03.02 201-253-122-118-102-20010403) with SMTP id <20020120122243.MTAS1013.smtp03.retemail.es@conway.localdomain> for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:22:43 +0100 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:23:41 +0100 From: F.Xavier Noria To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Message-Id: <20020120132341.29b5cc8d.fxn@isoco.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) 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 On 20 Jan 2002 11:45:00 +0000 Wayne Pascoe wrote: : Perl code can be ugly and wrong, but if written properly, it is easily : readable and easy to work with. I agree, IMHO bad code is not readable independently of the language in which is written. Once you have mastered Perl, well-written Perl is crystal clear, and often remarkably brief, concise. I second the recommendations on studying portable sh and friends, and Perl. -- fxn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message