From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 19 18:20: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from molly.intercom.net (molly.intercom.net [216.240.106.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F05637B416 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from cross (hh1106053.direcpc.com [206.71.106.53]) by molly.intercom.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g0K2KIhQ005002 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:20:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <003201c1a158$852912a0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com> From: "Ron Hensley" To: References: Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:16:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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. Chuckle, I totally agree there. Ive been an avid C/C++ Programmer for many many years. I looked over Perl and just couldn't get past all that using of RegExpressions just to parse an array of chars (String) and much prefer the C Standard Library of functions. The big place Perl shines is the ability to work with operating system level commands, however It's very easy to do the same in C with popen(), though a tad more wordy of course. I found Java/Javascripting to be equally as ugly in syntax. I admit though Perl has its virtues and following and I wouldn't mind getting past the hurdles of learning it. As has been stated there's an awful lot of existing code in Perl to make use of for those fluent in it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBPEooiFFb04N5DzUjEQK0iQCeIAdxyrqK1xcpJ5AZ61KmnJ+8RycAn20G vD6B8u2k00JzM2Moh+6+ztn+ =TsxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message