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So I read your post, and apparently it will be unicorns and rainbows, if only sysadmins wrote software beyond their ability in python instead of perl ?
You stated at the start of your blog entry that the problem was sysadmins doing the jobs of programmers, wouldn't it be better to hire programmers who know perl to do the programming and keep the sysadmins to sysadminning ?
Python won't enable them to program an iota better than perl, heck they'll probably try and apply perl, shell and c idioms to python and t
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;