Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

Shell is a bad fit for many uses (an ACME client is more ambitious than I would build in shell, personally), but the things it's good at, it's really good at. I have yet to find anything else that's even close to as good for glue code when I have a handful of tools and/or a bunch of files that I need to string together. Unless you're writing in Ada, I promise whatever language you think is better has its own sharp edges (if we're allowing eval, then not many languages are going to be safe, really).