"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer Basically, bit by bit it seems Microsoft are realising there is a ton o

"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer Basically, bit by bit it seems Microsoft are realising there is a ton of stuff they need to take from the unix environment. The comments here about how awesome PowerShell and the other tools within all are seem to focus on everything being an object rather than being text. So, we could fix that by basically providing a "Ruby shell" in one sweep. You go through the standard utilities you have on unix systems, provide them as Ruby methods on various objects (the Ruby stdlib has a great many) and provide a means to navigate a file system easily, and basically you have the beginnings of an object-orientated shell with the support of the traditional 30+ year old command line utilities. What is it I am missing? This feels all a little reminiscent of when Microsoft got all giddy about providing symbolic links... well... yeah... I mean... what?