I agree, and as TFA mentions, shell scripting is an "incoherent mess of composable paraphernalia" where you have to memorize a “weird mishmash of trivia” -- but

I agree, and as TFA mentions, shell scripting is an "incoherent mess of composable paraphernalia" where you have to memorize a “weird mishmash of trivia” -- but if you have memorized it, then you can do some neat stuff without a so-called "real" language installed (that you have to upgrade and have to worry about if you have a modern version installed)