> It's literally impossible to write robust programs in it. It's hard, verbose, and littered with snafus, but it is also a solved problem. POSIX and C shell a

> It's literally impossible to write robust programs in it. It's hard, verbose, and littered with snafus, but it is also a solved problem. POSIX and C shell are a source of quoting difficulties. The semantics of Plan9's rc and now fish are much more straightforward. I think that shells could be a robust technology if we were less fixated on faithfully capturing familiar idioms.