People really underestimate just how important this property can be for a scripting language. It's happened multiple times in my career that, due to regulatory

People really underestimate just how important this property can be for a scripting language. It's happened multiple times in my career that, due to regulatory burdens, we aren't allowed to install anything new on a given machine without going through due process - in those situations, you gotta be able to work with what you got. Unsurprisingly, Python is the language I have the most experience with by far, followed by Bash and PowerShell if you count those. All because they're actually accessible from the getgo on the system.