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What language should I learn?

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-02 23:51

I'm getting into networking (currently studying for the CCNA) and I'm wondering what language(s) would be good to learn.

Let me clarify. I don't plan on getting into programming full-time or even on the side; I'm more interested in learning something to make my job applications look more impressive. While the network administration job market isn't as over-saturated as that of /prog/ramming, it's still not ideal. I want to have an edge over the competition.

With all of this in mind, please suggest something that employers looking for a network administrator would like too see (and perhaps have a use for), not something you personally think is the best due to its good syntax or garbage collection or whatever other qualities you look at when determining whether a language is ``good'' or not.

Basically, a ``sellable'' language rather than a useful one.

Name: Anonymous 2010-11-03 12:59

>>1
12 years of sysadmining experiencing here, also studying for his Cisco certs.

- You will need Perl, period. There is no discussion about it. Ignore the other faggots on this board who say otherwise. You need to know Perl for when Bash and IOS aren't enough.
- Previous poster said Linux/UNIX wizardry. Very yes. An important part of this is knowing shell scripting inside and out.
- The ability to read and fix C code is very useful as well.
- One of the easy hipster OOP languages like Python and/or Ruby would be good to know as well. Python though I detest it does have more modules available.

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