The reason I don’t like shell scripts are spaces and the weird constructs sometimes. I never got into Perl, but I understand why it was popular. Sure it’s pos

The reason I don’t like shell scripts are spaces and the weird constructs sometimes. I never got into Perl, but I understand why it was popular. Sure it’s possible, but it’s therefore also brittle, when someone touches it and is not a complete expert. Shell is nice not because of the shell language, but the ease of executing and chaining other programs.