>the reason shell scripts have endured is precisely because they are extremely good at that It's very easy to make something extremely good at this and much le

>the reason shell scripts have endured is precisely because they are extremely good at that It's very easy to make something extremely good at this and much less error prone. That's the main problem. >often imposing awkward control flow on you or making things that should be simple much much more complicated. There's literally one primitive paradigm for control flow, both bash and other languages incorporate it. if... else. <----That''s it.