Comment by sanderjd

Man, this sounds right, but I dunno ... I feel like even "simple" shell scripts tend toward more inscrutability than all but the most questionable python code I've ever written. Just comparing my dotfiles - every bit of which I understood when I wrote them - to the gnarliest sections of a big python app I work on ... I just really feel like at least some of this inscrutability issue can truly be laid at the feet of shell / bash as a language.