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I guess one can say that 25 years later this has been shown as (partly) wrong. I don't think Powershell really solves a problem, it's too complex to work with
by buster 14y ago
I guess one can say that 25 years later this has been shown as (partly) wrong.
I don't think Powershell really solves a problem, it's too complex to work with for the majority of problems. If i want complex data handling i write a script and put #!/usr/bin/env {bash,python,perl} in the first line.
I think the missing point here is that the nice, line-based, really simple approach is that this is how we speak and write and think. (in a series of flat words, so to speak). It's extremely easy to get into this kind of handling "data" and it's sufficient for a lot of tasks. I always admired what can be done with one line of bash/GNU utils.
As i said: If it get's more complex, we use a "real" programming language with more complex data structures anyway.
- xtractinator 14y agoI'm weary of using structured data, that is data that is structured in such a way that you don't need to understand what it's passing around. Keeping it simple means that the developer will always know exactly what data is being passed around. This is important for a lot of reasons not all of them are related to only development as a job.