[MichaelRo]

>> Scripts should be written using the project main language

... as long as that main language is a scripting language. Otherwise it's just dumb.

Also, tunnel vision by the author: "Almost all projects I’ve worked on have scripts we wrote to automate a repetitive process. "

Well almost all projects I’ve worked on have scripts we wrote to automate a ONE-TIME process. Like collect some data from the log to figure out a bug, fix it and forget about both the bug and the script. Automate it since can't manually process 30Gb of data and grep only can do so much. Sure as funk won't write the "script" in C++ but Python or Perl or something.