I remember looking on in horror as a QA person who was responsible for the install/deploy of some banking software scrolled through the bash/perl script that installed this thing. I think it had to be 20k+ lines of the gnarliest code I've ever seen. I was the java/.net integration guy who worked with larger customers to integrate systems.
My group insisted we should do single sign in in perl script but I couldn't get the CPAN package working. I had a prototype in java done in an afternoon. I never understood why people loved perl so much. Same with powershell. Shell scripters are a different breed.
The reason being the lack of UNIX skills on the new team, and apparently it was easier to pay for the development effort.
Afterwards there were some questions about the performance decrease.
I had to patiently explain the difference between having a set of scripts orchestrating a workflow of native code applications written in C, and having the JVM do the same work, never long enough for the JIT C2 to kick in.