Shell programming style -- a plea for better shell scripts

[Brian McElhinney]

*Sigh*  I agree that sh is much more portable, but reading sh scripts
is painful...  "case" and "esac"???  UNIX supports C, a standard UNIX
shell should at least resemble C.  I never have understood why the Bourne
shell looks like Algol.  (Not that I think a change is possible, just that
this is one more reason UNIX is not easily accepted)