As a CS history lesson I think bash is extremely well fit. The UNIX shell started off at some point, and in the meanwhile it became possible to use newlines and

As a CS history lesson I think bash is extremely well fit. The UNIX shell started off at some point, and in the meanwhile it became possible to use newlines and spaces and unicode, and to have that tool still proving its usefulness after all these years is not only incredible, I'd even go as far as say that the learning of bash makes you more aware of general weirdnesses whenever you attempt to use similar patterns in your own programming. CSV needs quotes, SQL needs quotes. Streaming data and delimiting it correctly isn't just a bash "problem domain". It's pretty much universal, really. For a recent example of a related problem: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361