<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Ben Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bwalton@opencsw.org">bwalton@opencsw.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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3. In theory, it should be quicker to develop since all the<br>
boilerplate stuff is there already.[1]<br>
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-Ben<br>
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[1] Not if you're learning a new language and toolset though.<br>
<font color="#888888">--</font></blockquote><div><br>yes, there is that issue.<br><br>my scripts for this stuff are all in korn shell.<br>I like korn shell, both because its compact to write, and also because it is going to be readable, and modifyable, by 80% of sysadmins who look at it. In contrast to ruby, etc.<br>
<br>(any competant sysadmin, *must* be able to read and understand basic sh scripts. The same cannot be said about ruby/python/.....)<br><br><br></div></div><br>