[moebrowne]

I believe that Bash scripts should be trivially short and simple. As soon as any complexity is introduced they should be written in another language.

[porise]

Perl was written to write more complicated bash scripts. It's so seamless to call and handle shell commands and the first class regexes make it terse in a way that's appropriate for this use case.

[general1465]

I agree, the moment bash script needs "if" statement, you are using wrong language.

[frou_dh]

Is that so? Sounds like this commandment has a lot of authority, I'd better start following it.

[cousinbryce]

You’re free to program in language with only one data type all you want!

[rascul]

Tcl is great

[shawn_w]

Unironically, tcl is great as an upgrade from shell.