So given that I work a lot with Chef a lot of my scripts tend to be ruby, so there's less context-switching involved in languages. That said I still write the occasional bash script because it's just quick and easy for simple tasks, especially where I don't need to do complex parsing or looping.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Yves, > > I teach a scripting/automation system admin course at a local college. > What I am finding is that the language used depends on: > > * if you primarily windows - powershell > > * if you are primarily linux then > ** if you are younger - python > ** if you are older - perl > > Being an older type who is cross platform I use mostly perl and powershell > with bash/awk for simple things on linux. In my current class, I have 2 > students using python, 1 using a mix of bash and python, and 4 using > powershell. > > cheers, > > ski > > On 05/12/2016 03:38 PM, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > >> >> A lot of people love to hate bash, and there are good reasons for it, but >> it >> seems that there isn't an obvious replacement for it. >> >> At some point it looked like perl was going to be it, then depending on >> the >> local preferences some shops use either python or ruby, heavy JVM shop >> often >> use groovy, while more and more shops now even use js or go... >> >> I find bash (or any other UNIX shell) much more natural for simple >> scripts, I >> don't even mind all gotchas (set -e, super weak typing, every var is >> gobal, >> etc..), but do hate how bad it is to manipulate data, and the difficulty >> to >> organize code. >> >> What do *you* use? Do you see any clear winner to replace it on the >> horizon? >> >> > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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