I only got to the first example and had a hard time deciding if the article was satire or not. Let's use bash instead of a real programming language! It is sup

I only got to the first example and had a hard time deciding if the article was satire or not. Let's use bash instead of a real programming language! It is super convenient! To do super fundamental things like trimming strings you just have to implement your own function with 40+ non-ASCII characters in a row! That example makes regexps seem like human readable and god knows if it is even correct or works portably across different versions of bash. To be fair the article assumes you are first in bash and want to avoid launching subprocesses but for any production scripting that is the wrong hypothesis to begin with. A better approach would be to not start inside bash at all. Just do your scripting in a higher level language where basic ABC stuff like string, list, number and error handling are already there for you. Even if that trim_string function and everything else from the article would be provided in some bash-bible-std-lib it wouldn't even come close to what's available in say Python for example, and you still have to wrestle the syntax and other obscurities like -a (or -e) meaning file exists. While there are some good examples in there if you are stuck in bash, this article was more of a 100 reasons not to use bash to me.