From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 9: 1:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mxzilla4.xs4all.nl (mxzilla4.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B3837B419 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 09:01:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from xs4.xs4all.nl (rene@xs4.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.45]) by mxzilla4.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g0KH1Zsj068979; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:01:35 +0100 (CET) Received: (from rene@localhost) by xs4.xs4all.nl (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA06272; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:01:34 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:01:34 +0100 From: rene@xs4all.nl To: Mark Woodson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Message-ID: <20020120180134.H17795@xs4all.nl> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020119151248.033629b8@127.0.0.1> <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl> <5.1.0.14.0.20020119151248.033629b8@127.0.0.1> <20020119213601.C17795@xs4all.nl> <5.1.0.14.0.20020120104211.00b0a5d8@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020120104211.00b0a5d8@127.0.0.1>; from mwoodson@bacxs.com on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:46:46AM -0500 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 Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:46:46AM -0500, Mark Woodson wrote: > At 09:36 PM 1/19/2002 +0100, you wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:13:21PM -0500, Mark Woodson wrote: > > > At 08:58 PM 1/19/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > > >I could really use some clues here. PHP comes into mind, but maybe there > > > >are other better options? > > > > > > Other options certainly. Perl for starters. Have you looked at it? > > > >yea, I saw some really scary stuff in some perlmongers' email sigs ;-)) > > Yeah, well... Python, you could always hack away in the ultimate language, C. well, to add my own 2cts after I give you my background which is being a windowze coder for about 7 years in Delphi, VB and some C++. I have now switched to the unixes some time ago, to see if the open source grass really IS greener than the black-box grass of windoze.. My philosophy is that I'd rather use a less-complicated language like pascal or (if must be and the business logic isn't that complicated) Visual Basic than a complicated language such as C++ or Perl. See, the thing is that in C++ or Perl, you often end up figuring out the style of programming used by 'the guy who tinkered with it before you' instead of fixing or extending the code at hand. If several types of coders have had their hands at such code, things often turn too messy to maintain :( Perl / C++ people; I don't aim to put you down, or expect flames in return. This is just an opinion, and I fully admit that I don't know Perl at all and C++ only very very shallowly. I saw, didn't like, so turned my back on those languages... Maybe I was wrong. Convince me, nicely ;-) BTW; thanx for the discussion so far. It's been quite an interesting read! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message