sometimes you have no choice, such as working on telecom systems which have a stripped down Linux version running on it and there is no python/perl interpreter available.
That's certainly a possibility. For me, however, the vast majority of scripts I write will only ever run on my own computer or maybe also on some AWS instances. I suspect this varies a lot based on what sorts of things you generally work on.
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sometimes you have no choice, such as working on telecom systems which have a stripped down Linux version running on it and there is no python/perl interpreter available.
That's certainly a possibility. For me, however, the vast majority of scripts I write will only ever run on my own computer or maybe also on some AWS instances. I suspect this varies a lot based on what sorts of things you generally work on.