> As a scripting language I'm pretty impressed with it, but as a shell I find it an annoying place to be in. Couldn't agree more. The syntax is fantastic for

> As a scripting language I'm pretty impressed with it, but as a shell I find it an annoying place to be in. Couldn't agree more. The syntax is fantastic for scripting as it has good support for objects, but it is not good as a shell due to the different return types and polymorphic behavior of some functions based on the type they are operating on. In *nix land this isn't a problem as everything is text.