Shell scripting feels like scripting in cursive. It’s obfuscatory (sed? curl? grep? ssssuper descriptive) for the sake of thinking about solving problems like t

Shell scripting feels like scripting in cursive. It’s obfuscatory (sed? curl? grep? ssssuper descriptive) for the sake of thinking about solving problems like the elder generation. To make matters worse, you’re not even doing hard computer science things most of the time. You’re tweaking bits in files, uploading/downloading, searching, etc. It’s like having a butler who only understands your grocery list if it’s written in cursive. I agree we need a shell scripting language, I disagree that bash zsh or anything that frequently uses double square brackets and awful program names is the epitome of shell scripting language design.