Linked by Adam S on Tue 8th Jul 2008 12:47 UTC
In 2006, Microsoft released Windows Powershell, a new command line shell that, via cmdlets, scripts, and executables, allow core system administration tasks to be scripted. While this functionality has been available on Unix-type systems for decades, Microsoft's version will almost certainly, within a few years, be available on several hundred million PCs. So how does the Powershell stack up against Linux favorite bash? MSDN links to this Bash vs Powershell article.
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2006-09-25
One of the goals of Powershell was matching the power of Unix scripting tools.
So they intentionally chose a Perl-like syntax, hence the $.