decent languages for unixy shell scripting

are there any? ash, dash, csh, ksh and bash all suck when you want to do more complex programming because simple shit like conditionals are based on weird hacks, and because they favor clever one-liners over clarity. perl makes complex programming easier but it also relies heavily on cleverness and doing cryptic shit with symbols. popular scripting languages like python are ok if your're are idea of shell script is 'text processing', not 'managing processes and pipes'. scsh is not maintained anymore. maybe someone should make a racket #lang for this shit.

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PowersHell is a sad joke. The idea of using native objects would be good if we were talking strings, ints, floats, bools, nulls, lists and dicts, i.e. JSON or YAML-representable, zero learning curve, and universally easy to access and use. But we've got:

Classes
Windows shit complexity
Who gives a damn about COM and WMI bullshit? Whoever designed this shit should kill himself; it's an unapproachable PITA
Does nothing useful or new for UNIX
Alien syntax
Impractical verbosity
Camel-Case-With-Dash, are you fucking kidding me?
.NET runtime

All faggotry. I'd rather use Bash, Perl or even the FIOC.