hi in my environment, besides shell scripts written for sys admin tasks, there are shell scripts that call java programs which in turn will do various processing like connecting to databases and doing manipulation of data. My programmers all know only Java and so this is how the java programs come about. Also, some scripts were written in Perl by some admins who left, and successors have difficulty grasping perl syntax and how it works. My intention is to replace these scripts and java programs to python scripts, and in future, any processing of text or running queries to databases will be written in python using relevant modules. Browsing the clp newsgroup on the advantages and comparisons of shell,perl,java and of course python, as the language of choice for writing scripts, i chose python as i think it has many benefits, like readability etc etc... Now i am preparing to write a recommendation to my boss for "endorsing" python as the scripting language of choice. Is it a project worth doing at least for my environment? What are the things that i should consider if i were to go ahead? thanks
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