Why aren’t new terminals that use another language? It seems so antiquated getting errors for not writing the functions in the correct order among other things.
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The other answers are great. But consider the following, as well.
All the mainstream package managers rely on POSIX-ish shell interpreters. Arch Linux PKGBUILD files require bash syntax, specifically.
RPM and .deb package formats literally embed shell scripts to perform pre- and post-installation tasks. They treat these scripts like hooks.
For instance, a common task would be to create requires users and directories for a program. Quite literally something like
mkdir -p /var/lib/myprogram.