alt Hacker NewsPerl is a sysadmin language. There's "always" been this tension between sysadmins and developers.
In my mind (developer back then) I'd amateur-psychoanalyze all of that nonsense as some kind of inferiority complex meant to preserve the self image. Needless complexity can be a feature!
And now we are all developers!
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MrDarcy • yesterday at 6:38 PM
In the 2000’s Python was also a sysadmin language.
Edit: But I see your point, Google SRE’s around the late 2000’s reached for Python more than Perl.
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> some kind of inferiority complex meant to preserve the self image
Or, as the kids say, a flex, but without the sexy connotations.
(Incidentally, I am also reminded of a great quote attributed to Morphy:
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.")