It's been this way in the visual effects industry for decades. Most of the tools are used through a Posix layer with Perl to keep things tidy. Going into the VF

It's been this way in the visual effects industry for decades. Most of the tools are used through a Posix layer with Perl to keep things tidy. Going into the VFX forums even a few years ago I was amazed at illustrators knowing enough Perl and Python to get the job done, because, "Designers can't code good!" Even the commercial stuff looks like some graduate students thesis work. A basic Java GUI and about 50+ commandline arguments.