Shell scripting also inspired some choices (especially syntax) of the Toit language (toitlang.org). Clearly, it's for a different purpose, and there are some t

Shell scripting also inspired some choices (especially syntax) of the Toit language (toitlang.org). Clearly, it's for a different purpose, and there are some things that wouldn't work in a general-purpose language that isn't as focused on line-based string processing, but we are really happy with the things we took from bash.