I think, it's the idea that counts not the language. Why did you write that software in the first place? What good does it do? E.g. Does it monitor you ISP connection and alerts you when someone drops into promiscuous mode? Did you find out why? I could't care less what language was written in, could be shell script as long as gets the job done and delivers. Sure we have our favorites that we reach to first, but I would say don't waste your energy that python is better than java. Just write better software :-) (just my humble opinion)