A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by wvenable on Friday May 20, 2016 @11:37AM (#11738682)

It's very powerful but the syntax is step back 20 years:

    If ($Number -gt 0)

That's just one example. There is a lot of really confusing stuff in powershell that's entirely unnecessary. There were going for some kind of Bash-shell familiarity which, oddly enough, most Windows developers don't even have.

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Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by colejohnson66 on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:31PM (#11742055)

I'd say the usage of -lt and the like is because angle brackets are used for piping data.

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Re:A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch by wvenable on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:54PM (#11742185)

The shell is a mess of symbols making any sane programming language impossible. Instead of perhaps rethinking the "mess of symbols" issue they ruined the language instead.

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