needed python??
 

Hi,
have I need to learn python, I know several interpreters (fro example
bash scripting, ) and laguages (php, C++,C..).
I administrate servers on linux
end developpe application at know using depending of course of type
of application so from bash, to C, C++ ( graphical interface fltk) and
php.

thanks in advance for any remark
best regards
bela

It helps a lot to know one of the scripting languages (Perl, Python, or Ruby). Shell scripts quickly become awkward once you try to program more complex logic for automating processes. Also, with a scripting language you can use an MVC Web framework like Ruby on Rails, TurboGears (Python) etc., which are tremendously powerful tools.

As a final incentive, systems monitoring and automation tends to involve dynamic languages, e.g. Puppet is written in Ruby, and BCFG is written in Python.

I encourage learning python if you have will. It's of great use, and though some old C-"gurus" tend to think it's not suitable for programming anything else than "Hello, world!" I have to disagree. I don't have much personal knowledge of Ruby, but I assume it's as handy as python is; if C/C++ is a climbing set that helps you reach places you couldn't without it, then python is the swiss army knife that lets you turn a window glass into a nuclear station (as in MacGyver series) :) well, that isn't exactly true, but still: if you can, study python. It never harms to know more, and it's definitely a good choice if you need something between bash and C (or php).