I HATE BASH

It's so shit. Shittier than PHP by at least 10 orders of magnitude.

Link related, it's the nigger who wrote it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer)

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The nice thing about ksh is that it knows when to stop.

The entire concept of "expansion" is the worst thing about shell languages. bash and zsh address this problem by... adding more types of expansion. That's some wonderful thinking right there.

ksh says, let's keep only the ugly stuff that Bourne compatibility requires us to have, and add new control constructs to so we can use as little of said ugly stuff as possible.  It's the only new shell language that has the decency to admit its limitations, and that's why I like it.