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Aren't we talking about software engineers not just generic users? I would be very surprised if an engineer working primarily in windows couldn't write a .bat/

Aren't we talking about software engineers not just generic users? I would be very surprised if an engineer working primarily in windows couldn't write a .bat/powershell script

dagw 10y ago
I wouldn't. I work with lots of (non-software) engineers and I bet that most of them couldn't produce an non-trivial .bat without a lot of googling.
- subway 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure the structural engineer next to me has no clue wtf a script is. Fortunately this conversation is about software engineers.
  - dagw 10y ago
    Actually this conversation is about "anyone exposed to a Unix system", of which software engineers is a small subset.
kefka 10y ago
I guess that's the superiority of Linux admins. I'being one of them, can write scripts in bash, python, perl, and plenty of other langs. And just recently, taught myself powershell as well. Screwedup-LangwithLongKeywords...
Dayshine 10y ago
I can use powershell. Never had to write a script, whatever for?