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Originally Posted by
scottn
Just because it's the default doesn't mean you have to use it.
In fact, you would be better off learning what is standard, than just limiting yourself to "bash".
I thinks standards are overrated from a user point of view. We just want things to work.
Some of us are still learning the default bash, let alone trying to learn ksh, or zsh, or on an extreme example, 'Posix compliance' I'm not a programmer, just a user.
I know we don't
HAVE to use use it, but you should give us (beginners) a learning curve until we can meet your 'standards'.
Sometimes I feel like the standards are so backward compatible, that there is no room for upgrades. I mean when are we going to get rid of MS.IE-6.0 standards?
Why do some programmers still try to be compliant with 1998 standards, move forward already.
Look, I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm just saying that not everybody is a sys-admin, some of us are just users trying to manage our machine.
So, in retrospect, standards are not always important to the end user, as long as it works.