> commit the time to learn it I did. Turns out I don't like it. What I dislike the most is that it brings out the clever type who likes to show off their trick

> commit the time to learn it I did. Turns out I don't like it. What I dislike the most is that it brings out the clever type who likes to show off their tricks. That includes me. I've written atrocious Bourne scripts, and I've watched other people defend line noise in code reviews. > instead of just complaining it's hard So what's good about it that I should tolerate the weird expansions and arcane scoping? > The world runs on C and bash scripts... Less and less, thankfully. > and it's just fine. It may have been fine in 1980.