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coldtea on Aug 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Lin...

No, actually it's quite apt.

PowerShell, or at least the concept behind PowerShel, is an improvement/superset over the Unix shells -- and can do whatever the shells can do, plus stuff they cannot do, because they don't support typed entities.

Its problems are not technical or conceptual -- they are ecosystem and historical: lack of compatible tools, windows-only, etc.

MichaelRenor on Aug 19, 2016 [–]

Or to the point of the original parent: the industry considers powershell a solution in search of a problem.

pjmlp on Aug 19, 2016 | [–]

Only those that disregard the inventions from Xerox and ETHZ.

Powershell ideas go back to how REPLs work in those environments.

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