I don't know why, but on the tangent of long standing Unix traditions that I question are exit codes 0 being the only success Always wished negative exit codes

I don't know why, but on the tangent of long standing Unix traditions that I question are exit codes 0 being the only success Always wished negative exit codes were errors, positive was success and zero is no action taken Many times in various scripts, it could helpful to know it succeeded but also how in a clean, easy way