>> Now you know why I dislike scripting languages in general. ;-)
> 
> They work for what they're designed for - I use awk quite a bit, perl 
> occasionally, and shell scripts on rare occasions.
> 
> But if I wanted to write something that was usuable by a general computer 
> user, I'd look to develop in a compiled language, as a general rule.

The kind of tasks I typically want to do involve heavy number crunching. 
Scripting languages aren't terribly suitable to this...

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