Bad code is bad code, regardless of language. At least with Python, I more or less know all of the idioms and can at a glance understand what the flow of a prog

Bad code is bad code, regardless of language. At least with Python, I more or less know all of the idioms and can at a glance understand what the flow of a program is trying to accomplish. Shell has a lot of esoteric voodoo syntax to replicate better string/path/array handling that is just a given in other languages.