On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote: > Adherence to standards and legibility can be problematic if you care > about > portability to sucky systems and shells. For example, `...` is more > widely > supported than $(...). But in the case of stali, I suggest that non-suck > should > take priority over portability.
I think shell scripts should adhere to the POSIX sh standard. Trying to support older shells such as bourne is pointless. If the shell doesn't support POSIX sh then we shouldn't care about it.