> To me, it's a matter of cultural differences. Think of it this way: a shell operates in two mode, script or interactive (the new fancy word now is REPL). How

> To me, it's a matter of cultural differences. Think of it this way: a shell operates in two mode, script or interactive (the new fancy word now is REPL). How much time does your average PowerShell user spend in REPL mode? I realize this is anecdotal, but I spent about 2 years using powershell exclusively, instead of mingw/cygwin, and I during that time I would always keep one or more powershell windows open. I see no reason to believe that anyone with bash, etc experience would not use powershell the same way. Imho it worked well as an interactive shell, its biggest failing was Microsoft's awful console window that hosts powershell. I would be really happy if Microsoft provided something better by default, like Console2 - although that program has it's own set of problems too.