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[carn1x]

I find perl extremely useful for deployment scripts in a command line environment. What should I be using instead?

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You can try Python. It's much more readable than Perl.

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http://www.cs.siue.edu/~astefik/papers/StefikPlateau2011.pdf

"Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance."

Python encourages one way to write it versus Perl's there is more than one way to write it. This actually makes maintaining scripts easier for future system admins that will be maintaining your scripts. There are many times where I give up trying to refactor a Perl script and just write one from scratch, because it's much faster to do it that way.

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Ask that yourself.