I like the idea of PowerShell, but my constant lamentation is that it doesn't go deep enough to be considered a true shell. Many of the things that I lean speci

I like the idea of PowerShell, but my constant lamentation is that it doesn't go deep enough to be considered a true shell. Many of the things that I lean specifically on bash or ksh or cmd.exe or yori.exe for ultimately lead to breaking into C#. PowerShell makes them painful. In my mind, it competes more with Python than Bourne shell: it's a scripting language that only tenuously gives you a DSL for interacting with processes and the streams between them.