Nothing that is common and built in that meets these requirements and is very legible AFAIK. I tend to write most of my scripts in PHP so I don’t have much of

Nothing that is common and built in that meets these requirements and is very legible AFAIK. I tend to write most of my scripts in PHP so I don’t have much of a leg to stand on other than that it is: - very scriptable. - common in the environments I work in. - can easily shell out. - can be either completely loosely typed or more strongly typed as you wish. - has an extensive standard library.