Subject: Re: A little direction please
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 13:43:00 AKST
* Arthur Corliss <arthur@corlissfamily.org> [030214 10:07]:
> >
> > If I wanted to be a flexible admin..working both M$ and the Linux
> > arena......and wanted to write scripts for both environments...what
> > language would you suggest I learn? I've been writing short command
> > scripts and vbs scripts...but if I'm going to put time into learning
> > scripting I want to be a flexable as possible.
>
> Having been in that unenviable position in the past (but thankfully no longer
> ;-), I would have to suggest Perl. ActiveState's Perl implementation includes
> WSH bindings, and couple that with the Win32::Lanman module, and you have
> access to just about anything you need. I've used to provide an intelligent
> logon script framework, used Perl/Tk to provide help desk with a GUI user
> management tool for the domain controllers, and so on.
I agree with Arthur but would add a couple of notes: Python (which is
also a part of ActiveState) is worth investigating also.
In my company, I program primarily in rebol and python (as scripting
langauges). My partner programs perl for the most part.
One of my brothers is a project engineer for Motorola. For their
system admin and internal programming, they use a balance of Perl
and rebol. They do a lot of stuff with rebol with sockets,
since TCP/IP is compiled into the binary. I would note that
rebol/core does not provide system calls and has a liberal
licensing requirement for their /core module.
I've read a little about the 'parrot' project - which is a
component of the Perl 6.0 (planned) implementation. If I understand
correctly, it is meant to compile both perl and python. Perhaps
Arthur knows more about that.
HTH
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Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
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