Powershell In Action covers a bit of the history and decision making around powershell; interesting stuff. Ultimately, given that powershell was initially targ

Powershell In Action covers a bit of the history and decision making around powershell; interesting stuff. Ultimately, given that powershell was initially targeted at systems admins/engineers and that Windows is highly object-oriented(in contrast to Linux's text streams), I believe Powershell was a apt development. Having done plenty of systems engineering across linux and Windows it seems to fit the needs of Windows pretty well; a fantastically unique shell that wouldn't have existed if not for Windows.