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Most of the working Windows system administrators I have met could not code their way out of a wet paper bag (but a majority could code their way into one). If
by sk5t 10y ago
Most of the working Windows system administrators I have met could not code their way out of a wet paper bag (but a majority could code their way into one). If you've been unlucky enough to work on a "managed" workstation, their near-total unawareness of optimization, state, and exception handling is why your Windows login script takes 10 minutes to crunch away.
- flukus 10y agoTo be fair, windows scripting is pretty limited. Then you have powershell which is way to bloated for quick and dirty things.
- sk5t 10y agoMost of the nasty Windows scripts I've seen were VBScript, used to bludgeon about various WMI providers and to launch unfortunate executables. I don't think the language was much of a hindrance on its own, but it did nothing to repel stupidity. Several years on, I still don't know what to think about Powershell, it's basically .NET + pipelines + some discoverability aids, not terrible in concept but I will probably go on ignoring it for the rest of its life.