[laumars]

I've been mocked on HN for saying this before but Bash and other shells of it's ilk are programming languages in their own right. I mean sure you're dependant on the suite of tools in $PATH to do anything useful, but that's not that much different to the standard libraries that make modern languages so powerful.

[Spakman]

I have have a hard time seeing what there is to mock about your opinion of shells. I absolutely consider them languages - better at some things, worse at others.