Indeed -- that's where Perl still fits into my day-to-day toolbox. It's exactly in those 5-50-liners with a little logic that I want a language with an overabu

Indeed -- that's where Perl still fits into my day-to-day toolbox. It's exactly in those 5-50-liners with a little logic that I want a language with an overabundance of syntactic shortcuts. Shell is the exact opposite of that.