Shell is a 'glue' language, not a 'be' language. It's for gluing things together, not for being something in it's own right. Though yes, it'd be a lot nicer if

Shell is a 'glue' language, not a 'be' language. It's for gluing things together, not for being something in it's own right. Though yes, it'd be a lot nicer if arrays in particular didn't suck so much in shell.