[va1a]

Fair, but in the context of scripting, which seems to be the focus of this article, how often are you dealing with complex library code? When I write scripts for file manipulation / simple automation, I'm usually not dealing with complex library objects. Plenty of os method calls, plenty of regex matches, but little else in this context. Big projects are another thing entirely. There's a plethora of reasons why you may want to use a different language for a certain project type. But it doesn't seem fair to imply that python is uniquely handicapped (or otherwise inferior to Java) for scripting and simple automation use-cases.