Re: About the "nameref" feature in bash...

On 09.12.2024 13:38, Kenny McCormack wrote:

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I'm a fan of "retro" software, too, and I'm skeptical of the sort of people
you often see who act as if if you aren't running the absolute latest and
greatest, then your input is useless.

There's often some simplicity and good usability/ergonomy in older
[legacy] software that (strangely) a lot newer software, especially
GUI-based, is lacking.

I'm regularly verbally "attacked" by me not updating (for "security
reasons") all my systems to the newest version. (Thereby completely
disregarding all the problems [including security] you buy with new
versions.) But meanwhile they accepted my unconventional habits here.
Sadly, a lot of things just don't work with systems older than a few
years, especially Web/HTML based serviced.

[...]  I'm wondering "how alpha is alpha?"

Concerning Bash questions I can just contribute what I heard by the
way, or by inference from Kornshell (which is in many features a
paragon for Bash features). Sorry.

Janis