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.
I think Perl is still more popular even today than Python as a sysadmin language. Late 2000s it certainly was. Maybe Google was different, but across the industry more widely Python was barely used, Perl was used everywhere.
(90s) Yes, but it developed.
I think Perl is still more popular even today than Python as a sysadmin language. Late 2000s it certainly was. Maybe Google was different, but across the industry more widely Python was barely used, Perl was used everywhere.