Even worse is that POSIX forces this to be used. Using a non POSIX shell is much easier to write (e.g. fish xonsh - and possibly Powershell or rash but I have

Even worse is that POSIX forces this to be used. Using a non POSIX shell is much easier to write (e.g. fish xonsh - and possibly Powershell or rash but I have not used the last two) sh and derivatives are difficult for me to follow the syntax is impenetrateable - and I was a professional APL programmer.