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The problem is that you think bash is a programming language.


The person who you're responding to is engaging with the person who they're responding to in the terms chosen by the latter. If the original commenter hadn't written, "PowerShell feels outright developer-hostile even when compared to Bash", then we might have some reason to find fault with the person who replied. Considering that's what did happen, however, this comment of yours—which is both snarky and implicitly demands the wrong person to take responsibility for the comparison—just comes across as annoying.


Its bad even for one liners.


People complained about Python using whitespace, adding an extra space in bash can break the whole thing




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