interesting ongoing thread... i've seen a number of these over the years.. my language is better than your language!!
i'm sure this question on the php list would have findings/results that are essentially opposite of what is being discussed here! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruno Desthuilliers Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:35 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison? 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
