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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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