Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: About the "nameref" feature in bash... Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:00:24 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:00:29 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1831f7430e8998035619d33d7ee64315"; logging-data="489725"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX197x6fNmgdJwVe2oPXhfss/" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jz8F74+alje4di+8xxt3PTSe7sc= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2240 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