Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Atreyu
From : Weatherman
Date : Mon Nov 07 2022 08:10:08


A> What absolutely kills me... makes me laugh... actually laugh from the
A> belly... are Powershell fanatics. These are seriously people from another
A> planet.
A> I've worked with PS, written some scripts with it and mannnnnn... the
A> syntax for the most basic of operation I found to be Rube Goldberg
A> convoluted in design and execution.
A> 
A> They've completely missed the joke... that you're spending countless hours
A> on
A> a command prompt of a "Windows" OS. Just like Windows Server installs
A> without
A> the GUI. It completely goes against the whole point of a GUI, the whole
A> name.

I agree that powershell has a convoluted syntax that makes some of the 200 character command line options in Linux look basic.  The execution of powershell is a mess.

I understand why Microsoft created this - all in the name of "automation and scripting".  Why not use APIs, or any other straight forward method towards automation.

- Mark
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