On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> It wasn't like that at the time I bought into it and committed to it. It > degraded into that. It happens. Providers are fickle; "caveat emptor" applies. Elsewhere I was just reminded that when POSIX removed a bunch of ksh-isms from the spec, the only place this was really disruptive to those of us who rely on strict POSIX compatibility to make scripts work on multiple systems was Linux, because bash promptly removed those ksh-isms and thereby broke around a decade's worth of formerly strict-POSIX scripts. (I'm still grumpy with POSIX over that, but that's another discussion....) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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