It's going to be interesting to see what making Bash and other tools available
on Windows is going to do to scripting there over the next several years.
David Lang
On Thu, 12 May 2016, Ski Kacoroski 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?
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