[vetrom]

Well, dealing with horrible exception handling is still better than just silently running off the edge on errors.

Much like any language, you need to read and understand it to be able to truly write, I think. bash is deceptive in this regard IMO, due to how low its barrier to entry is.

Now if you want to see some truly horrible code, implement a shell script that runs in bash and zsh and does exception printing in both.