It's still a shell. No need to use & 'externalProgram.exe' when you can just use externalProgram.exe just as well. I see a lot of weird things on St

It's still a shell. No need to use & 'externalProgram.exe' when you can just use externalProgram.exe just as well. I see a lot of weird things on Stack Overflow with & or even Invoke-Expression, especially when it involves passing parameters to programs and the lack of understanding how parameter passing works. The results usually aren't pretty, then.