Bash: reading properties based on an ENV parameter

I hate bash, and I hate that there is not a standard way of reading property files based on 2 parameters: the property name, and the environment. And we are in 2014...flying people to Mars etc...and still hacking these very basic requirements.

Here is a possible solution:

create a config.sh executable file:

DEV_prop1=bla
PROD_prop1=blu

you have your environment name in a variable ENV

ENV="DEV"

you load all your properties:

. ./config.sh  (note the space after the first . !)

then you get the property name with an "indirect referencing":

propertyname=${ENV}_prop1
myvalue="${!propertyname}";

There are many other ways (I hate the cat/grep/awk solution) but they all stink just the same.
Let's face it, bash stinks. Like a skunk.