The Rule of Silence (2006)

Re:The Rule of Silence (2006) by skrebbel on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:12PM (#13170494)

> And I hardly think the registry and PowerShell, which came out nowhere near the same time, were conceived of at the same time.

I believe that the registry, in a way, caused PowerShell.

PowerShell works the way it does because Windows is structured data all the way down. A text-based shell a-la bash would not be very useful for Windows sysadmins. If you want to do Windows automation (e.g. on a cluster of windows servers or whatnot), you need to process and manipulate structured data (server settings, user permissions, AD groups, whatever). Hence, a shell and scripting language for doing just that.

If Microsoft hadn't moved from .ini files to the registry between Windows 3.1 and 95, I don't think PowerShell would've had the same design goals as it does now.

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Re:The Rule of Silence (2006) by emodendroket on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:40PM (#13171334)

Perhaps, but PowerShell wouldn't look the way it does without the CLR being ready to hook into either. And I could easily see just having applications that interact with the structured data but return text -- that's what all the old stuff did.

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