[dgfv1]

I don't see how it's obsolete. Just because code is old that doesn't mean that it's obsolete.

If code is sound it will be around for as long as it takes to supplant it. As far as I know the majority of the current Bash code is well suited and up to date. If this article is some kind of response to the recent vulnerability (that the media decide to lose their collective minds about) then it's simply reactionary garbage that has no real familiarity with the code base.

I'll finish by saying that a code base that is algorithmically sound will remain so for the foreseeable future.

[andrewchambers]

He complains about declaration syntax, which is entirely irrelevant to code logic, and is just an artifact of how the C language has evolved over time.