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> get rid of all the footguns about expanding unquoted variables

The shell's power & it's footguns are one in the same. "Fix" them, and becomes a general-purpose language--a jack of all trades & master of none. CS professors will love it, but doing anything meaningful in the shell will look more like a one-page python script instead of the l337 one-liners the Jersey boys graced us with.

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I've seen so many "bash but with type inference, unit testing, and all those nice features to make your code safer."

I want to see someone try "bash but we really embrace the insanity."

For instance, make recursively affecting all files in subdirectories the default? Or have a global option where any prompt is automatically answered with yes? Maybe some heuristics to detect if the user wants unquoted variables expanded?

APL also has great one-liners if that is any help as a potential breeding pair.

Oh some real terse syntax I like it!

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