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"It reminds me of AppleScript, but far worse." I wouldn't go that far :-). But you are right. They did good work with the cmdlets but they put a terrible langu
by maxxxxx 7y ago
"It reminds me of AppleScript, but far worse."
I wouldn't go that far :-). But you are right. They did good work with the cmdlets but they put a terrible language on top of them.
It would have been much better if they had put an interpreted version of C# (maybe with a few extensions) on top of it.
- carlmr 7y agoAgreed, I think F# which already has an interpreter would have been a great and obvious choice. Terse Syntax, amazing type inference, and a great existing community.
- maxxxxx 7y agoThis may be interesting. Script languages generally aren’t typed but maybe a language with very good type inference may feel like it’s untyped.
- carlmr 7y agoYou mostly don't need types in F#, although types often add readability, especially for function signatures (IMHO). F# will even compile let add a b = a + b add 1 2;; as val add : a:int -> b:int -> int val it : int = 3 or let add a b = a + b add 1ul 2ul;; as val add : a:uint32 -> b:uint32 -> uint32 val it : uint32 = 3u So it will even infer type from the first usage of the function.