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No one has mentioned PHP yet? Man, times really have changed.
I used it for scripting a decade after everyone else, but even I have to admit PHP is rarely the best choice now.
I've actually tried using PHP on OpenWRT and embedded before. It's not exactly lightweight, it's a memory and CPU hog. Keep in mind that the kind of machine that runs OpenWRT might only have 32 or even 16 MB of RAM to work with.
Also, PHP is not the first language that comes to mind when doing data processing and/or functional programming. You can but it doesn't lend itself well to it.
For data processing?
Yeah, it's really flexible when it comes to arrays and string processing. Super easy to work with, too.