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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by mikestew on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:32PM (#12313957)
It mostly comes to do this for me "is this thing going to be something I need to understand and manage outside of my own little bubble?" if it is then I want it to be better designed/maintained.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. And you're right, even I wouldn't want to maintain 1000 lines of serially-executed commands, meaning I have a line limit somewhere as well. So maybe a mix of complexity, and at some point length even if I don't put a number on it like you did.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by satysin on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:50PM (#12314127)
Everyone has their own way of working :) I first got into things with batch files on Windows 95 and quickly realised how awful they are when more than 5 lines! I quickly moved on to their Windows Scripting Host stuff which was better but still painful. Then VB6 then C++/MFC.... The usual Windows user story.

Scripting on Unix is a lot better but it is only recently that places seriously use VCS for scripts in my experience so before the days of Git if you wanted to do anything with an iota of manageability it meant you did it in a "real" language hehe.

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