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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by coldtea on Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:43PM (#12316826)
No, actually it's quite apt.

PowerShell, or at least the concept behind PowerShel, is an improvement/superset over the Unix shells -- and can do whatever the shells can do, plus stuff they cannot do, because they don't support typed entities.

Its problems are not technical or conceptual -- they are ecosystem and historical: lack of compatible tools, windows-only, etc.

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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by matt_wulfeck on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:02PM (#12317532)
Or to the point of the original parent: the industry considers powershell a solution in search of a problem.
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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by pjmlp on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:12AM (#12319476)
Only those that disregard the inventions from Xerox and ETHZ.

Powershell ideas go back to how REPLs work in those environments.

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