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Perl scripts can be vastly more powerful than PS. Perl is a full blown general purpose programming language with a massive collection of libs and frameworks. I
by vgy7ujm 10y ago
Perl scripts can be vastly more powerful than PS. Perl is a full blown general purpose programming language with a massive collection of libs and frameworks.
It is however very powerful that Perl can be used in bash pipelines. But that is also true for any Unix tool that takes I/O.
So Bash is also very powerful with the help from all its friends that can be used with pipes. Shell native.
And you don't HAVE to code Bash in the most convoluted way possible. Sane code structure and naming goes a long way.
- will_hughes 10y ago> Perl is a full blown general purpose programming language with a massive collection of libs and frameworks. > So Bash is also very powerful with the help from all its friends > you don't HAVE to code Bash in the most convoluted way possible. Sane code structure and naming goes a long way. All of these things are also true for Powershell. Powershell can use any .NET Assembly, and if necessary make native windows system calls too if you really want.
- vgy7ujm 10y agoHaven't really touched Windows the last 5+ years but adding .NET to the mix sounds a bit complicated in relation to Bash.