bash is good enough for launching commands and short scripts. When you want to manipulate data that may contain special characters or write not trivial algorith

bash is good enough for launching commands and short scripts. When you want to manipulate data that may contain special characters or write not trivial algorithms, it becomes insane. I think it is a feature. It indicates that bash is not the good tool for that. bash, sed, awk are excellent tools. I know all the basic stuff about them and I know when it becomes tricky. When it becomes tricky, I switch to python or perl.