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Sounds like you’d prefer Python.

• ska 6y ago
  I don't think you'll find universal agreement that python is "coherent, cohesive, well thought out"...
• coldtea 6y ago
  Well, I do Python for decades :-) But I would be OK with (a) shell programs that talk to each other through pipes with something structured -- e.g. depending on the program with something like a pandas dataframe(binary) a parsable tree (e.g. json-like) or csv output and input -- as opposed to random text people try to parse with cut -f, regexes and so on. (b) shell programs that share the same flags for the same things (not e.g. -o/--output for output in one program and -w/--write-file in another) and only specialize in the behavior they need... and several other things besides...