Agreed. The problem with bash & Co. (if that's a problem) is that it's the result of a process of adding clunk after clunk of stuff in the only few ways that wo

Agreed. The problem with bash & Co. (if that's a problem) is that it's the result of a process of adding clunk after clunk of stuff in the only few ways that wouldn't break the language. So we have things like i=$(( i + 1 )) and [ $? -eq 0 ] and [ "$?" = "0" ]. Add to it the differences between "$@" "$" and $ and a number of similar things. Apart from that it's very good at what it does. Hush seems to start from a normal language like Python or Ruby and add the pipelining / redirection stuff which is usually very verbose and error prone to do in those kind of languages.