I wonder if we were in our early 20s during Nazi Germany if either of us would have the wherewithal to reject being a Nazi. I suspect we're all shitheads depending on the context.
> I'm dis-recommnending bash.
Yeah, I got that. I just thought it was absurd for you to only aim for a few orders of magnitude speed improvement when you could've easily gotten several more by arguing for something faster than Python.
> You admit floating point math in bash would be a good idea, and you seem to think [...]
You're doing that thing again where you try to represent my argument for me. This time instead of telling me what I might say, you're telling me what I think. You're wrong again, and it's still a poor argument strategy.
I'm not defending or advocating bash. I'm certainly not recommending any improvements to it - I only said they were possible. I am however calling you out for recommending Python in any case where performance matters.