choice of languages for debian system tool?

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 01/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:32:55 -0700

    I'm thinking of writing a tool that would aspire to eventually being
    something a debian sysadmin would like to have around. A very basic
    tool, no gui required, should be useful for just about any unix-y
    install, but I want to focus on debian.

    It looks like, in order to be useful on a base install, my tool must be
    either compiled or bash. Okay. My question is, to what extent would I
    be alienating my audience if I used, say, interpreted python or perl?
    It seems like perl is required for an awful lot of debian tools.
    Naturally, I can't think of any specifics right now. I believe that
    there are various compiler offerings for those two languages, but I
    don't know if they're solid enough to bank on, and as a user, I really
    like script tools because it's easy to find the code -- just open up the
    application's file.

    Please be gentle; I went to sleep last night thinking, "There are no
    open source projects I can think of to start that don't already exist in
    some form,"[1] and I woke up before I was quite finished sleeping with
    this idea in my head. I'll have to see if it withstands scrutiny in the
    light of day.

    Apologies if any of this babbling makes no sense whatsoever. I'm still
    exhausted, but I couldn't sleep with these questions on my mind.

    [1] Yes, in many ways, it would be better for the community for me to
    pitch in on an existing project. But my particular itch right now is
    design, and while I suppose it's possible to come from nowhere and
    suggest design changes to an existing project, it's probably not the
    best way to get my feet wet. Besides, I had decided last night to take
    the bug-fix approach, but then I had this "Eureka" moment I describe
    above. Also, I'd like to learn how to build a debian package, and the
    project I have in mind, at least the core part of it, should bfairly
    simple in that regard. 

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monique
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