"As short as" doesn't necessarily mean "can be written as quickly as". I write a lot of C++ at work, and it's usually quicker to write a Python script to do glu

"As short as" doesn't necessarily mean "can be written as quickly as". I write a lot of C++ at work, and it's usually quicker to write a Python script to do glue type work. There is another advantage - I mostly write python for the 'glue' scripts in large build systems. It saves some complication if your build system doesn't first have to compile chunks of itself!