Comment by fstrthnscnd

so it's not Bash by itself which is great, it's POSIX shells?

> they are part of POSIX (a Standard which is implemented by multiple OS) and therefore often available

That's not an intrinsic property of Bash.

> - you can use them to compose programs written in different languages

> - you can easily connect the output of one program with the input of another (pipes)

This last point subsumes the previous one. So basically, you're saying Bash is great because it's a shell?