> This is true of any programming language Glad you mentioned that, because that was going to be my reply after reading the first half of your post. I'm not s

> This is true of any programming language Glad you mentioned that, because that was going to be my reply after reading the first half of your post. I'm not sure a person who is fairly well-versed in shell scripting is going to do a worse job than trying to use python, perl, lua, etc. if he doesn't also hsve a high level of experience and compentence in those languages. It has been literally 10 years since I touched Python. I use shell scripting every day. I know which one I'm going to be better at using to produce reliable code that does what I want it to do.