> shell ... Just not a useful enough set chsh - change login shell DESCRIPTION The chsh command changes the user login shell. If you don't like

> shell ... Just not a useful enough set chsh - change login shell DESCRIPTION The chsh command changes the user login shell. If you don't like the features of your shell, use a different shell. > you don't still need ... "awk" and "sed" and "grep" I don't need those programs - there are many other ways to solve most problems. I want to use them because they are both fast to start and execute, and make development time extremely fast. > You too are blinded by the limitations of your tools. You appear to be trying to use the shell for tasks that that should be done in a different language. You also don't seem to understand that some of use use the shell because discovered it was a much faster and easier to use tool for some problems than the other methods we've tried. For some tasks, complaining about the overhead to do some things like floating point or trivialities like the <100ms it takes to fork and run bc is a premature optimization. If you don't find shell to be a useful tool for the problems you need to solve, that's fine; use whatever tool works best for you. We might be trying to solve different problems. Just because you don't like a particular tool doesn't mean it's "ridiculous".