Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?
Perl or python, which has the most supported sysadmin tools?
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, Michel Verdier wrote:
> Le 2 avril 2023 Nicholas Geovanis a écrit :
>
> > Python is a more modern programming language than perl, and more in the
> > European CS tradition. Larry Wall said directly that the OO features in
> > perl were fake :-) because it was another fad. You can feel the difference
> > in python. 3 styles you could code in python: old-fashioned procedural,
> > functional like lisp, or modern OO.
>
> IMO style is perhaps important for development. But libs et regex are
> more important for sysadmin. I use python if a library is there or if I
> need to interface another python program. In example mutagen for covering
> mp3 files. And I use perl everywhere when I need a regex: parsing logs
> and the like. Specially with backref and substitution which are painful
> with python (IMO).
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