I don't want an object oriented language to glue stuff, I want a glue language. Want the result of wget in memory instead of print or disk? Write it to memory:

I don't want an object oriented language to glue stuff, I want a glue language. Want the result of wget in memory instead of print or disk? Write it to memory: page_contents="$(wget -O- some_page)" It doesn't try to apply some default structure, so I don't need to rely on MS doing a fancy special wget for me that calls thousands of lines Invoke-WebRequest in the background.