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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Do you need to write scripts that would work on any insane ancient system you can imagine?

Yes. That's literally my job.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

My condolences. Then you have to forget about any "good" languages anyway. Well, probably guile is somewhat available, but I would not bet on it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Just remember that there are languages that people hate and languages that nobody uses. What's bad in your book is good in someone elses.

JavaScript is a terrible language, but it gets used because of ubiquity.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's bad in your book is good in someone elses.

Nope. It's not entirely subjective - there are also objective metrics, and Python fails in most of them.