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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by mlLK on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @10:33PM (#385265)
Well put, as long as they are responsible system administrators Perl will live. Python/Ruby would never play well in an admin's toolbox.
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by lacker on Thursday December 04, 2008 @11:49AM (#385833)
Even at Google, where the preferred scripting language is Python by far, many system administration tasks are handled with Perl.
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by graemep on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @11:29PM (#385305)
Why?
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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by charcoal on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @11:43PM (#385318)
Perl has many features familiar to users of sh/bash. For admins who often deal with shell scripts, it's an easy reach to use Perl for all sorts of little things.

That said, I think you can still be responsible and use Python instead. ;) Might take you a few more keystrokes though.

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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by evilneanderthal on Thursday December 04, 2008 @12:56PM (#385894)
agree with that. perl is tremendous for sysadmin tasks.

we've had 90% complete python tools rewritten from scratch in perl because perl is so superior.

disclaimer: i'm a recovering ex-sysadmin

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Re:Perl 5 Is Dying by charcoal on Thursday December 04, 2008 @10:35PM (#386562)
Wait. If I'm reading that right, you had utils written in Python that were 90% finished but then rewrote them in Perl and got them working.

What about Python was getting you stuck at 90%?

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