Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:13:00 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Message-ID: <p05101201b8727a111e5a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl> References: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl>
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At 8:58 PM +0100 1/19/02, rene@xs4all.nl wrote: >So I've learned how to do basic scripting in /bin/sh. But boy-oh-boy >is that language arcane. ;-) > >What other language do you guys advise for system administration >tasks... I am sure that you'll get different answers from different people! For simple stuff, 'sh' plus a few unix commands is good enough. Once you get a little more complicated, I would go with perl, ruby, or python. Before I learned perl, I did some fairly clever and elaborate things in awk, but I now consider that to have been the wrong choice. I would not use Java or PHP for the kinds of things which I consider "system admin" tasks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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