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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: About the "nameref" feature in bash...
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:00:24 +0100
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On 09.12.2024 13:38, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> [...]
> 
> 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