[throwawaaarrgh]

Have you not used Python or Perl much? Because both are full of footguns. And I don't see any advantage to for loops in a HLL. These are identical:

  for i in `seq 1 10` ; do
    echo i $i
  done

  for i in range(1,10):
    print("i %i\n")

You might find problems with the shell code, and I'll find problems with the Python. But both will print 1 to 10.

[optionalsquid]

Personally I've found Python to have significantly fewer foot-guns than bash.

The biggest reason why I don't use it all of the time is that calling / piping commands takes a lot more typing, so it's easier to use bash for very simple shell scripts. And while there are libraries that simplify shell scripting, that adds external dependencies to your scripts.

> for i in range(1,10): > print("i %i\n")

This outputs "i %i\n\n" 9 times.

[throwawaaarrgh]

> This outputs "i %i\n\n" 9 times.

damn, ya got me there. to be fair, I was drunk when I wrote that xD

[IshKebab]

Come on, they aren't full of footguns in basic things like string comparison or variable assignment.

Most of the things on this list couldn't happen in Python:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls