[druiid]

Bash is for most things, one of the easier languages I have dealt with, being even beyond python, etc. That is though, for shell type scripting.

There's many problems with it, but the only one I've run into that keeps it from being more useful is that there are no multi dimensional arrays built-in. There are super hacky ways I have seen them implemented, but by default it's something I basically never am able to turn to when scripting in bash and have to turn to other languages, even when the particular task I was working with would be mostly simpler in bash.

That said, there are associative arrays in bash these days.