I use Bash because it's ubiquitous, it works well enough (even if it has several flaws), and because a lot of other people know how to use it. Find me another l

I use Bash because it's ubiquitous, it works well enough (even if it has several flaws), and because a lot of other people know how to use it. Find me another language that meets the same criteria while retaining the core syntax for executingprograms, redirection, and pipes, and I'll switch to it. Csh and Tcsh might be improvements, but I don't know how to use them and none of my coworkers do either. Powershell is an option at my particular company, but it has a handful of other problems (some of which are gradually being fixed in newer versions) and it's not "portable" to other organizations. And I personally use Zsh, which I think is an improvement over Bash, but again, none of my coworkers know how to use it, even though it's the default of everyone's Mac. People have similar complaints about SQL. It's kind of bad, but nothing has replaced it because it's just too hard to accumulate the critical mass of adoption for any one replacement.