Re: which programming language for server-side admin tasks

["David G. Mackay" <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> David G. Mackay wrote:
> > Well, I try to make my searches specific to what I'm looking for.  The
> > more key words that I can throw at it, the less extraneous cruft comes
> > up.
> 
> That doesn't mesh very well with finding stuff that you don't know 
> exists yet.  For example there is a nice pure-java clone of rrdtool 
> called jrobin that opennms uses to store and graph time-series values. 
> But if you didn't already know that, how would you find it?  Even the 
> bigger things like cifs-in-java don't seem to be very well exposed.

True, but if I don't know that it exists, I'm probably not trying to
find it.  To find out about the items that are, to me, unknown, I do
things like subscribing to technical mailing lists, etc.  Then, there
are sites like java.net that specialize in java.

Dave


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