Every major admin scripting language I've ever used has so many foibles and edge-cases it makes me pine for full programming languages. What admin scripting la

Every major admin scripting language I've ever used has so many foibles and edge-cases it makes me pine for full programming languages. What admin scripting languages bring to the table: 1) Easy access to executable binaries - no creating a Process object to describe it, just run it 2) Easy piping and filtering 3) A standard library designed for terse and easy-to-use access to administrative tasks. 4) Pleasant in REPL form. That's the good side. The bad side is that they're all such a collection of hideous hacks and edge-cases for basic concepts like variable scope and typing that even the simplest operations that would be hilariously trivial in a real language are utterly agonizing.