[python-advocacy] Why another language?

[Carl Trachte]

On 4/9/08, Noah Gift <noah.gift at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is our, or "the", answer for
>  someone that poses a very reasonable question like this?

Noah,
You already made one (actually two) good point(s):

> even Bash can get out of control,
>  and a 50 line Bash script has a habit of turning into two thousand
>  lines of unreadable and untestable code.
>
 Two of the points I would make are already covered in your point:
- easy
- readable
- maintainable
My only "original" point is "easy".

Sean Reifschneider IIRC gave a talk on sysadmin at this year's Pycon.
That might be a resource if he's posted his slides.

Carl T.