[Discuss] Scripting languages (was Re: rsync v. cp in data migration)

[Richard Pieri]

I'm not a programmer. Never was, probably never will be. I'm a sysadmin.
Bourne is my go-to language for anything repetitive for two simple
reasons: it's there, and it doesn't change. Every UNIX and Unixalike has
Bourne shell. Every single one. And it works the same on all of them. A
Bourne script written for Ultrix 3 works on Solaris 9 and RHEL 6 with
maybe a slight tweak for different paths (SysV vs. BSD vs. LSB).

No other scripting language in the world meets those criteria.

-- 
Rich P.