The beautiful part about Powershell is that it's object oriented so that it doesn't depend on "plain" textual output formats. Something like a bash command line and piping text outputs, struggling with regexps in awk or whatnot while crossing your fingers no update will break your scripts felt pretty archaic and a wrong way to go about it when I had started to get more fluent in PS. (which btw is OSS and available on Linux now too)

But the worst thing I came across with Powershell is this. The fricking return semantics. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10286164/function-return-...