walterbyrd a écrit : > Michael Torrie wrote: > > >>Absolutely false. Most of my standalone, command-line scripts for >>manipulating my unix users in LDAP are written in PHP, although we're >>rewriting them in python. >> > > > I would say that you are one of very few who use PHP for sys-admin > tasks - and even you have switched to Python. In general, it does not > seem to me that PHP has caught on as a sys-admin language. > > However, as sys-admin scripting langanges go, I would also say that > Python is far less popular than butt-ugly Perl. Again - just based on > what I've seen.
Perl is a scripting language. By 'design'. It's meant to be a better sh+sed+awk. Python is a general purpose programming language meant to fill the gap between shell scripts and C programs. So Perl is obviously a better scripting language than Python. The problem is that Q&D sys-admin scripts tend to become full-blown apps - and then, Perl starts to suck. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list