I think, almost by definition, for a language to have any interest, it must be able to deal with I/O streams. I can't think of a language that wouldn't work (I'

I think, almost by definition, for a language to have any interest, it must be able to deal with I/O streams. I can't think of a language that wouldn't work (I'd be very interested if somebody knows one and why it wouldn't work). What the scripting languages give you is simplicity. No need to muss with compilers.