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UNIX administrators, for instance, have been using shell scripting and its powerful capabilities for decades. Scripting can significantly ease the burden of network administration.

Dune is a useable functional programming environment with a reasonably complete standard library to back it up, which should simplify some of the more complicated sysadmin tasks.