Yeah, Perl started out a bit like this. I never adopted it for myself or my company, but I did get a chance to have lunch with Larry Wall and talked to him abou

Yeah, Perl started out a bit like this. I never adopted it for myself or my company, but I did get a chance to have lunch with Larry Wall and talked to him about Perl. This was back when Perl was quite a young and promising language for a certain class of problems. Perl had very good performance, despite being a "scripting" language, because so many of the tasks that a typical shell script might need to do were supported by built in features in the language (for example handling regular expressions, interacting with command line arguments, exec'ing other programs). Today, once a shell script requires very much logic, I'm inclined to use Python. I know Python and find programming in it easier than Perl and bash and other shells. Furthermore, other programmers understand Python better than bash.