I don't think my point glosses over this at all though, in that the mindset back then derived from the pioneering work done at Xerox Labs & on original Unix. I know bash itself was not created as the first shell implementation, however its syntax is clearly heavily derived from the original Bourne shell and ascribed to its overall philosophy: do one thing, and do one thing well. Besides, at that time, you either dropped into Smalltalk or C if you needed to do more than text processing, which is what bash et. al. are still insanely good for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga#/media/File:Amiga500_sys...
Way ahead of their time, those guys.
I don't think my point glosses over this at all though, in that the mindset back then derived from the pioneering work done at Xerox Labs & on original Unix. I know bash itself was not created as the first shell implementation, however its syntax is clearly heavily derived from the original Bourne shell and ascribed to its overall philosophy: do one thing, and do one thing well. Besides, at that time, you either dropped into Smalltalk or C if you needed to do more than text processing, which is what bash et. al. are still insanely good for.