I take a super utilitarian view. At the end of the day, PowerShell on Linux is another tool in the toolchest.

PowerShell has a POV about abstracting gorp into high level task oriented abstractions, object pipelines, structured data, and the workflow from interactive shells to ad hoc scripts to formal scripts to production scripting.

That is what a number of people are looking for in their tools and that is why they like PowerShell.

We are constantly looking for ways to improve PowerShell and make it more useful so I'd encourage you to suspend disbelieve long enough to kick the tires. If you see some stuff you don't like, I would be very interested in hearing the details. You don't need to be polite in your feedback but I'd ask you to be specific so that I can identify potential changes.

If you are happy with your existing tools - happy days!

Thanks!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]

I admire how polite your responses to these posts are. Kudos.

> So many strongly typed shells exist already.

But no one uses them, and no one is building an ecosystem around them. That's what I'm hoping will change thanks to this announcement. Even if it's not PowerShell itself, if a different strongly-typed shell gets traction because of this, I will be happy. That's what I was trying to say with my comment.

> the only people I've seen say nice things about powershell are microshit fanboys that don't know any better.

I really like Powershell. If you install RHEL or Fedora I'm the 'mikem' in the default /etc/sudoers file.

I've been using bash for 20 years, trained a few hundred RHCEs, and spent a large part of my life working for Red Hat and then IBM's dedicated Linux group. So yeah maybe I don't know any better, but that's because I haven't encountered it before. Piping objects to 'where' and 'select' is simply a better approach than scraping text. The implementation details - having to use .net to make cmdlets - aren't great but the fundamental idea of powershell is excellent.

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