just like every component of a fully un*x braindamaged OS, the shell only gives you speed where it increase the likelihood of errors (and security vulnerabiliti

just like every component of a fully un*x braindamaged OS, the shell only gives you speed where it increase the likelihood of errors (and security vulnerabilities, lots of them). every single thing you can do in the shell is a vuln by default until you write a verbose workaround. since nobody does that, in practice the shell is just insecure and fast(ish) user experience. pl design is a big field and some C/java/sh programmer's opinion doesn't nearly represent it. even python is better than sh in every way; merely showing that it doesn't have a bunch of useful functions in scope by default (duh, it wasn't geared for that use case) doesn't prove that sh is fundamentally a good language for a console (its not).