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Wasn't that sort of the original design spec for perl?

• webjprgm 15y ago
  Agreed. Besides Perl, you can also use Ruby and PHP just as easily. At least that works for me. The main selling point is the ability to run shell commands with `command here`. I exclude Python from my list because you have to use the subprocess module, which makes it more complicated.
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  • wladimir 15y ago
    You could use ipython, which is a python-based shell that doesn't need explicitly calling the subprocess module to launch commands (and a lot more goodies).