On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 11:59:02AM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > How much lameness Chett has introduced into bash to accommodate > the wrong users.
This is quite unfair. The major systemic problems with bash (and sh) weren't introduced by Chet Ramey. They've been baked in from the very beginning. Making bash *less horrible* to use for programming purposes doesn't qualify as "lameness" in my book. Even if it does "enable" people to use shells for unsuited purposes, I'd still much rather have indexed and associative arrays (bash) than not have them at all (sh). There are several *suitable* tasks for which they are immensely useful.
