That would be pretty hard to sell to the bioinformatics crowd. My Bash scripts are long, but easy to read. I'm just setting some environment variables, running

That would be pretty hard to sell to the bioinformatics crowd. My Bash scripts are long, but easy to read. I'm just setting some environment variables, running some algorithms (many output to stdout and can be piped directly to other algorithms), moving the results around, write to a log here and there. Easily over 50 lines. Why would you force me into Python or what ever? I'm just gluing different programs together and moving files around.