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		latexr on Jan 11, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024) > To me, this is a development in the wrong direction. That ship has sailed. These were introduced in Bash 4, released in 2009, and Bash is already on version 5.

crabbone on Jan 14, 2025 | [–]

Oh, but we live with a lot of consequences of bad decisions, some of which have been made thousands of years ago :) A decade or two is nothing compared to it.

mhd on Jan 11, 2025 | [–]

Isn't this basically the same feature that existed in ksh93?

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