Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required"
> >in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one
> >scripting language to learn?
> >
>
> Several other responses suggest "sh", with "awk" and "sed", etc.
>
> I second those suggestions, but have one thing to add: learn regex
> syntax, and learn it well. They can be "mind benders", but if you don't
> know how to use them, your use of UNIX/Linux command line utilities will
> suffer.
As one who has never been able to get my head around regex, I can attest
to that. I sometimes end up writing a python script rather than a regex
one-liner just because I hate regex (or it hates me).
As for the add, why not phone them up and ask?
Personally, I prototype in Python. If it runs fast enough then its
done. If it doesn't, they I turn it into Ada (which is surprisingly
like python and nothing like C) and compile it. If its a pure
engineering problem, I'll use Fortran77.
However, being able to do simple things and being able to read more
complex sh scrips is almost required in UNIX.
Doug.
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