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)

>>12
In Latina narrareo. Anglum.

>>14,23
Stick with AWK and KSH93. You really do not need anything else. And scsh is still beta. There are lots of POSIX stuff still needed to be added. You can help although. And personally, I stick with low level stuff as much as possible, for every byte of redundancy.