Or they go the other way, after an initial assumption that the task was performance-critical when in fact a scripting language was perfectly capable and took 1/

Or they go the other way, after an initial assumption that the task was performance-critical when in fact a scripting language was perfectly capable and took 1/10 the effort to write. https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl https://opensource.com/article/18/1/my-delorean-runs-perl