There's nuance and opportunity for shell, Python, Ruby, C, etc. It's a good practice standardize on a couple of languages and treat executables as opaque proces

There's nuance and opportunity for shell, Python, Ruby, C, etc. It's a good practice standardize on a couple of languages and treat executables as opaque processes with a limited, well-defined API/ABI. The advantage of scripting languages is reuse across scripts. There is a limited ability to reuse across shell scripts, but it's often somewhat awkward.