> But I dream about how the world would be if Bash were actually a good scripting language. It compares favorably to csh, and I fear that's about the best you can say for it.

I finally started appreciating Perl after having to write some nontrivial Bash scripts.

(My hierarchy is: default to Bash when my task is mostly running commands. If there's a bit of text-processing or regex required, Perl. If I need any hierarchical datastructures, Python)