Hello!
Just adding my opinion. I think that the current interface to RAs with
environment variables is very good. It's similar to CGI which was hugely
successful due to it's flexibility.
As an RA implementation language, however, most classic shells and Bash in
particular certainly has its
I'm butting in here by saying that I don't think that the performance
discussion is very useful. Performance can always be improved, and by that
logic everything should be hand-written in assembly. Correctness and
maintainability should be of much higher importance. Premature
optimization
