> I've never understood why shells are designed to have this weird dual use case of both being easy to type into a command prompt, and being easy to write 40+ l

> I've never understood why shells are designed to have this weird dual use case of both being easy to type into a command prompt, and being easy to write 40+ line scripts in. It was probably less about that explicitly being considered the optimum design, and more about it being irresistible to save a lot of labor by getting 2 for the price of 1.