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Re:The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf] by Scaevolus on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:52PM (#14379267)
Sometimes it's better to write something in a more advanced language, but for small tasks it's hard to beat the overhead of a shell!

There are crossover points (varying by person) where a scripting language is preferable to a shell, and where a strongly-typed language is preferable to a dynamically-typed language.

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Re:The increased use of PowerShell in attacks [pdf] by throwaway7645 on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:12PM (#14380477)
PowerShell is a scripting language though, but it can also be used as a shell. The syntax is more advanced now that it has classes...etc.
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