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To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration?
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On 19 Jan 2002, Wayne Pascoe wrote:

> rene@xs4all.nl writes:
> 
> > * checking if a remote host is up
> > * pumping files & RAM data through external tools
> > * calling scripts written in the same language on a remote machine, to
> >   'pickup' data that was pumped to that machine by a local script.
> 
> Perl was written with sysadmin work in mind. That was the original

Perl is a hideously ugly language that should be taken out and shot. Since
your soliciting opinions :-) Python is a much easier, cleaner, and nicer
language for sys admin tasksfor me then perl.

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