"Real" programming languages are leagues ahead of shell scripting languages in terms of transforming and moving data around. Most shell utilities are focused o

"Real" programming languages are leagues ahead of shell scripting languages in terms of transforming and moving data around. Most shell utilities are focused on text processing or are thin wrappers around system calls. If you're using something like python's `subprocess` module to get at these, you're doing it wrong. Interactivity is where shells have an advantage. Their syntax lends itself well to that. It's also why the syntax sucks for regular programming.