It depends what it's doing. Other languages are much better at data processing. They make it more complicated to start child processes, use pipes, set environme

It depends what it's doing. Other languages are much better at data processing. They make it more complicated to start child processes, use pipes, set environment variables, etc. If you're doing system administration tasks, you'll end up with a lot of shell command lines embedded in the program. (Try editing a crontab in Python...)