We had a rule at my old workplace that any shell script that's over a page of code was to be replaced with a Python script. We chose Python because guaranteed

We had a rule at my old workplace that any shell script that's over a page of code was to be replaced with a Python script. We chose Python because guaranteed there would always be an up to date version of Python on any cloud machine we used, but you could certainly make a case for some other language. In a vacuum, my choice might be Scheme.