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There's always the old piece of wisdom from the Unix jungle: "If you write a complex shellscript, sooner or later you'll wish you wrote it in a real programming language."
I wrote a huge PowerShell script over the past few years. I was like "Ooh, guess this is a resume item if anyone asks me if I know PowerShell." ...around the beginning of the year I rewrote the bloody thing in Python and I have zero regrets. It's no longer a Big Mush of Stuff That Does a Thing. It's got object orientation now. Design patterns. Things in independent units. Shit like that.
I consider python a scripting language too.
They're all programming languages, they all have their places.
All scripting languages are programming languages but not all programming languages are scripting languages
I use it for scripting too. I don't need Python as much as before nowaday.
I initially read "UNIX jungle" as "UNIX jingle" and thought I had been really missing out!
You have, look up the SuSE songs.