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> You wouldn't write mission critical stuff with it

People do, they also write mission critical stuff in Lua, TCL, Perl, and plenty of other languages. What they generally won't do is write performance critical stuff in those languages. But there is definitely some critical communication infrastructure out there running with interpreted languages like these out there.



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