Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Sep 2007 23:08 UTC
As a system administrator, you run across numerous challenges and problems. Managing users, disk space, processes, devices, and backups can cause many system administrators to lose their hair, good humor, or sanity. Shell scripts can help, but they often have frustrating limitations. This is where a full-featured scripting language, such as Python, can turn a tedious task into an easy one. Python is a scripting language that looks like it was made for system administrators.
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2005-07-06
The problems with portage are more due to design than language. If you where to re-write portage in C using exactly the same design, algorithms and architecture it's currently using, it wouldn't be much faster. Conversly I you where to redesign it from the ground up, and still use python, it would be significantly faster.