9 Jan
2012
9 Jan
'12
5:05 p.m.
In article <CAMTenCGuimiNAd1F91x+2V59Cg5B+empx21bbtYYeyokYSzYvw at mail.gmail.com>,
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> writes:
I have absolutely no argument that the Windows shell
is less capable
and less powerful than sh/csh/bash/zsh/$OTHER_UNIX_SHELL. [...]
Windows opted for extensibility and scripting in a different direction
than Unix. Windows opted for scriptable COM objects and
VB6/JavaScript/VBScript for automation.
JavaScript + COM objects in Windows is more like perl + modules in
Unix, except that you're not limited to perl. (In fact, on Windows
perl can use the same COM objects.)
Besides, powershell is the au courant way of using a shell on Windows
and it's *better* than unix shells IMO.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powershell>
Now cue Dave McGuire to bitch about Windows in a mindless rant.
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