Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

David G. Mackay wrote:

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Google? ;)

How do you tell google to _not_ give you text matches that are really not about downloadable code modules in the language you want this week?

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.