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by AndyKelley 3938 days ago
You can easily invoke platform-specific binaries from within a scripting language. You can even invoke them in a shell if you want. Check out this API: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess...
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yarrel 3938 days ago
If most of your scripting language code is calls to other programs and to the shell, there's a simpler way...
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adrusi 3938 days ago
Well of course you can. Scripting languages aren't useless stunted toys. The point is that if that's what most of your program is doing, you'll have a lot more success using a language where that functionality is first class.
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