can some one help a newbie?

[Phil Hunt]

In article <7pmv4j$gtt at dfw-ixnews14.ix.netcom.com>
           aahz at netcom.com "Aahz Maruch" writes:
> In article <935227166snz at vision25.demon.co.uk>,
> Phil Hunt <philh at vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >In article <7pkke6$lut at dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
> >           aahz at netcom.com "Aahz Maruch" writes:
> >>
> >> Overall, if your background is as a sysadmin using shell scripts, grep,
> >> awk, sed, and so on, you'll find Perl a bit easier.
> >
> >I've used all these, and find Python easier than Perl. Perl would
> >probably be easier than Python for 1-liners, if I could remember
> >the syntax.
> 
> Note that I'm specifically assuming a sysadmin with little actual
> programming experience.

The idea that a company would employ someone, who can't really code,
as a sysadmin is IMO frightening. Unless they don't care whether
their computer system works, of course.

-- 
Phil Hunt....philh at vision25.demon.co.uk