BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 12/8/2013 11:02 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> So if I were going to task the talented Devin Teske with something,
> remember you just asked my opinion, then it would be to look at
> putting Lua in the boot loader, getting python into base, or working
> on making our utilities be able to output standard machine readable
> formats such as yaml, XML and json.

Can you cite a real-world example of a general-purpose OS where this was 
beneficial?  Beneficial here means otherwise impossible functionality or 
automation gains without adding barriers for low-level diagnostics, 
tuning, corner-case configurations and other modes of advanced control.

I'm not trolling here; I'd really like to see one.