JW> It's the best tool for the best job. In many cases the best combination of JW> tools, in fact.
This is a good point. One of the great things about free (as in freedom) software is the ability to stitch things together. For instance, I needed a way to track cisco router configuration changes without springing the $$$ for Ciscoworks. So I took RANCID (a C/Perl/Expect program that collects configs and stores them in CVS), and tied it to Chora (a PHP-based CVS viewer). A little tweaking here and there, and I had a program that would automatically download configs and give me a very nice web-based interface to track those configurations (and notify me by email if certain things had changed). Picking a programming language is like picking a religion. There may be some merits for one over the other in certain areas, but they are all trying in general to accomplish the same thing. ______________________________ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA The Whistlepunk Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440
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