"The Unix philosophy emphasizes building short, simple, clear, modular, and extendable code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators. The philosophy is based on composable (rather than contextual) design."
If that's the ★nix philosophy I don't want to be a ★nix person any more. Seriously, even my VMS machines have python installed, and a script I can read is a lot better than one I can't, even if the one I can read has an extra dependency.
Python isn't too bad (unless you're calling the script in a lot of separate instances), but python is fairly neat compared to ruby/javascript/whatever trendy language of the week as it doesn't need a huge pile of worthless dependencies itself.
"The Unix philosophy emphasizes building short, simple, clear, modular, and extendable code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators. The philosophy is based on composable (rather than contextual) design."