No, PowerShell objects have different types. They are not uniform in the way immutable strings are uniform. You can have type errors in PowerShell because of t

No, PowerShell objects have different types. They are not uniform in the way immutable strings are uniform. You can have type errors in PowerShell because of that, but you cannot have type errors in Shell, because, well, everything is the same type. > Hierarchies exist in textural output too! Dealing with immutable strings instead of hierarchies allows you to ignore the fact that there's a hierarchy encoded in text. Maybe it's there, maybe not. I don't care. My tools allow me not to care. Your's don't. That's the point. > Same with text, it's just that the "structure" No, it's not the same. Read again.