But Python works great when called from shell! I learned Python first, then shell, so my shell scripts largely use Python instead of sed/awk (except for the mo

But Python works great when called from shell! I learned Python first, then shell, so my shell scripts largely use Python instead of sed/awk (except for the most basic cases). This includes both inline invocations like python -c, but more commonly simply a .py file in the same directory as the shell script. So I think of shell as the main(), and then it often calls Python and R. (One big reason I started using shell was for preparing data in Python and then analyzing it in R.) That said, I think shell needs better support for JSON and TSV so you can interoperate with languages like Python, JS, and R better. Things like the 'read' builtin aren't great for this.