> It works but it feels kind of 70's or assembly. I mean, this is basically all of Bash lol. A very clever idea that has endured since the 70's but also shows

> It works but it feels kind of 70's or assembly. I mean, this is basically all of Bash lol. A very clever idea that has endured since the 70's but also shows it... And yet we get obsessed with "writing perfect Bash" still. The amazing thing is that there are also old "functional shells" like es-shell https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/ https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/ (he still works on this and it is indeed very interesting!)