Which do you feel is the more relevant language in today's systems administration and software development culture?

Question

1.) Ruby

2.) Perl

3.) Python

Answer 1

I hope you're kidding with Perl...

Answer 2

Personally, I believe that although Perl is the old guard sysadmin programming language, it's no longer in vogue where software development is concerned.

Ruby, although quite popular in software development, hasn't really risen to the occasion for sysadmins (not including Chef and Puppet).

While Bash and Korn shells still reign supreme in the sysadmin world, they're not really programming languages, but rather, scripting languages and as such, not included in this survey.

C is mostly confined to systems programming and therefore also not included in the survey, while Python has over the years, and increasingly so, lent itself quite comfortably to both camps equally so.

PHP, although capable in sysadmin roles, is a bit more clunky in such a capacity as its real strength is in generating HTML code...

So my vote would be for Python in this particular instance - it does very well in this dual purpose role and capability and python 2 is pretty much a standard compliment of all Linux Distros and BSD variants.