In #lugradio, mrben said “if it requires saving a script in a file, do it in python” in response to some talk about Bash scripting. It’s a nice thought, but as much as I like Python I think Bash has its place. I responded with:
Bash is glue, Python is polyfiller. One sticks things together. One fills holes.
I may be biased, but I like it. Of course, it’s not true all of the time, so I wouldn’t go quoting it as the rule of scripting or anything like that.