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> PowerShell is significantly superior to bash+coreutils in many ways Presumably it should be, given that PowerShell came out in 2006, while Bash appeared in 1
by _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
> PowerShell is significantly superior to bash+coreutils in many ways
Presumably it should be, given that PowerShell came out in 2006, while Bash appeared in 1989 and is tied to the model of Bourne shell which appeared in 1977 which itself was tied to the model of the Thompson shell of 1971. Which means that traditional UNIX terminal environments have certain artificial limitations which are tied to these earlier paradigms.
- JdeBP 8y agoNewer implying better is a bad presumption. Don't compare on dates. Compare on architecture and design.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoThat's not what I meant. I haven't used PowerShell enough to have an opinion on it, but in theory the designers of PowerShell would have had the opportunity to observe text-based shells of the past and improve upon the paradigm. (For instance, I prefer using eshell to a traditional terminal, because eshell [in addition to giving the user access to Lisp as an additional scripting/interface language] it is not only the 'command line' part of the buffer which accepts input, but potentially other parts of the buffer; you can use Plan 9 style terminal features; cd to multiple directories simultaneously etc..)