Perl or python, which has the most supported sysadmin tools?
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. 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). > >