dead languages

The main language being used is python, and the default scripting would be in python (though
as with the standard shell, other languages can be used in scripts, and the plan is for perl
and ruby to be supported fairly natively, but that will take some time).  So the idea is to go
beyond bash scripting, but maintaining a level of backwards compatibility.  Some relevant
links:

Ideas on how to do scripting (not implemented yet):
http://code.google.com/p/hotwire-shell/wiki/HotwireScripting

See "Running Other Languages" in this page for ruby etc support
http://code.google.com/p/hotwire-shell/wiki/GettingStarte...

And having an object stream pipeline rather than a text based pipeline is also a big advance
from bash and similar shells.  So a lot of thought is being given to language issues, with
many details still to be worked out.