On December 13, 2010 08:14:24 am Sven Aluoor wrote: > Hi folks > > I have more than 12 years experience with UNIX system administration, > but I am too stupid for programming. My only programming experience is > shell scripting. I tried to learn Java, but don't understand it > because it is too complicated for my limited brainpower. > > What programming language should I learn? > Perl and Python are probably the most useful languages for system administration tasks.