why Unix?

[grauzone]

> But shell scripting in itself is so powerful for this kind of stuff.  
> I've written lots of little scripts to do fantastic things that on 
> Windows would be so painful (without cygwin of course).  Like renaming 
> all files of a certain type to something else, or copying select files 
> to another directory.

Now wouldn't that be much more powerful to use an actual programming 
language for this, instead of bash? I claim with something like python, 
bash doesn't really have any right to exist anymore.