Yours and gcheong's comment just above makes me wonder if someone missed the boat in getting an enterprise level scripting language out the door. It looks like there never was a 'natural' successor to stuff like JCL.
Sun and MS are trying to bring scripting languages to their managed environments. .NET already supports Python reasonably well (I was surprised to see that SharpDevelop http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ can easily convert most of my C++ into Python).
Yours and gcheong's comment just above makes me wonder if someone missed the boat in getting an enterprise level scripting language out the door. It looks like there never was a 'natural' successor to stuff like JCL.