Can a rival not be a form of enemy?

Indeed, that is the entire point of my comment.

Windows 9 Core. They didn't like our GUI, so we're sure end users will love learning Powershell.

Am I the only .NET developer who doesn't get the point of powershell?

"Look it's C#! But with uglier syntax. And terrible tools. But with a handful of tiny features that let it work like a command-line language!"

What you're not getting is a not-invented-here scripting language with idiosyncrasies deeply coupled to .Net.

If only they had just improved the command line...rather than force every admin to learn a throwaway scripting language that adds no long term value once you use any other platform.

It is a CLI. So what you're not getting is server management.

As a CLI it's hideously baroque. It brings in all the mental overhead of OOP without the tooling needed to make OOP comfortable to work with. OOP is pleasant in .NET languages thanks to the relationship between Visual Studio and all information the .NET framework has about classes and assemblies - all the documentation around the object you're manipulating is right there.

The lightweight-but-still-too-heavy Powershell ISE leaves the user completely in the dark about the .NET framework.

It's an experiment, to see how hard it is to make "everything is an object" work as well as "everything is text" for scripting.

Honestly i'd rather install Cygwin and manually manipulate the registry than deal with powershell.

Well, the title has the words "German probe" in it. What nature of site did you expect?

"...there is no reason to go on being foolish forever."

Except there are...

Reasons that are not ours, but for those who control us.

If we can hit that bullseye the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!

No apology necessary. We don't have as many amusing translations, but every year we do watch the Robin Sparkles Holiday Special on the CBC as a national tradition.

hear, hear!

"Now get in there and do some work to do with computers!!!"