Most 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 th

Most 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.