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Noone gets Powershell.
by twerkmonsta 11y ago
Noone gets Powershell.
- stephengillie 11y agoSome of us do, but we've given up trying to expose HN to the shell. The anti-Microsoft culture that built up in the late 1990s and early 2000s has too much inertia on HN to overcome by occasional articles.
- jfb 11y agoKeep in mind that much of what seemingly makes Powershell so great on Windows is inapplicable in a Unix shell environment. So there's still some juvenile "M$ hyuck hycuk" nonsense, but there's also some pretty spot-on discussion of the difficulty of trying to move tools between very different systems.
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- lwhalen 11y agoThe anti-Microsoft culture that was earned in the late 1990s and early 2000s has too much inertia on HN to overcome by occasional articles. FTFY
- taylodl 11y agoI'm glad you pointed out it was earned, it's not as though the anti-Microsoft culture came from thin air
- stephengillie 11y agoAs your emphasizing comment embodies, that culture is still strong, and seems incorrigible. Microsoft are The Unredeemable. Even their current era of open sourcing isn't enough to wash away the sins of the past executives. On a more topical note, one of the limitations of Powershell is it can only do basic math and (obviously) basic Algebra. To extend this, you can invoke .NET from the command line. Try these: > $Area = [math]::pi > $eight = [math]::pow( 2, 3 ) http://www.madwithpowershell.com/2013/10/math-in-powershell.html?m=1 http://www.madwithpowershell.com/2013/10/math-in-powershell....