[python-advocacy] Why another language?

[Cameron Laird]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:19:41PM -0400, Noah Gift wrote:
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> I think this might be my first post to the advocacy list, but I though  
> I would share an interesting story.  Jeremy Jones and I are in the  
> last couple weeks of finishing, "Python for Unix and Linux Systems  
> Administration", and we both feel like it could make a major ripple in  
> that space.  Our hope, honestly, is to displace to some degree, the  
> notion that Bash and Perl are the only languages for Systems  
> Administration.  In fact, although even a few Python programmers might  
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> but that is my personal bias.  What is our, or "the", answer for  
> someone that poses a very reasonable question like this?
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I'll answer an entirely different question:  the things
you write are so reasonable that they've been said before
on more than one occasion.  In a few cases, they've even
been published, examples of which are available through
http://www.fourm.info/Python/Python_Item.2004-08-14.2557

Best of luck with your book.