PowerShell's object-passing approach ultimately is a heck of a lot more composable and reusable than the "blobs of text with AWK and SED magic" approach that it

PowerShell's object-passing approach ultimately is a heck of a lot more composable and reusable than the "blobs of text with AWK and SED magic" approach that its predecessors took. It's somewhat surprising to see people here arguing that the pure text methodology is superior. It's difficult for me to imagine a technically motivated scenario that is improved by having everything dump out inconsistently formatted and specialized plain text. Great example, ifconfig and netstat. Regular interfaces and an object model over these under the covers is a whole universe better than the ad hoc tabular formats they present.