The Underscore Archives

2008/5/1 Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk>:

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> Woohoo! Welcome to 1978 :p
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> *ducks*
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> http://www.shell.ir/Bourne-Again_shell.php


You see, this often comes up - PowerShell is, in my opinion as a
historically heavy Bash/Ksh/Csh/tcsh user, a step above the shells I use on
Unix precisely because of its object orientation basis and the fact that it
can incorporate the .Net framework in any shell script you are writing (an
example - accessing SQL Server via ADO.Net, getting a SELECT result set and
iterating through that result set was something like 4 or 5 lines of code in
PowerShell).  I wish PowerShell was available on other platforms, it would
replace Bash on my systems fairly quickly.

Richard