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It's not a weird article at all. And from what you posted, you didn't even read it. The author mentioned in the very beginning of the article that they wanted

by runjake 13y ago

It's not a weird article at all. And from what you posted, you didn't even read it. The author mentioned in the very beginning of the article that they wanted something that would work cleanly across their other (*NIX) platforms. Powershell, while fantastic, is not cross-platform. And Cygwin does some funny stuff that also makes client configuration a bit of extra work if you're, again, dealing with multiple platforms.

joemi 13y ago
To be pedantic, the article mentions that he's using "the Windows command line", and not Bash. So Powershell's non-cross-platformness does not seem to be breaking his goals any more than that.
- runjake 13y ago
  To be further pedantic, the article is about maintain a relatively-close command line environment between Windows, Linux, and OS X. The parent commenter failed to notice this.
- lucb1e 13y ago
  (I haven't read the article yet) What, it doesn't recommend bash but the default Windows shell? That's really weird, bash makes the shell by itself 10 times more versatile, regardless of what commands are available. Edit: > using a text-only interface is extremely foreign. Oh I see, he's newb (as in the normal meaning of the word, not mocking). That explains.