>Why not? Because shell language must be designed specifically, to allow fluent every day work on ad hoc things. Mainstream languages are not. There were numbe

>Why not? Because shell language must be designed specifically, to allow fluent every day work on ad hoc things. Mainstream languages are not. There were number of attempts so far to shell'ize some of them - ruby and rush (https://goo.gl/mouvrj https://goo.gl/mouvrj), python with pipes lib and so on but none of them succeeded. > It was nominally since Mono started. No, that was poor mans substitution. We are talking here about full MS product that behaves the same on all platforms, not similar. > I would ask which word was too difficult to read, but I think we won't enjoy further discussion/argument. You don't inspire either.