Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 00:43 UTC
"Once upon a time, when DOS walked the earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers. Then, Windows came along, and Microsoft seemed set on leaving the command prompt to dry up and wither into obscurity. Fortunately, Microsoft has again turned its attention to the command line and, in so doing, has produced one of the most compelling new Windows features eWEEK Labs has ever had the pleasure to test: Windows PowerShell."
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RE[2]: In concept it is better than UNIX shells
by codehead78 on Thu 25th Jan 2007 03:33
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I'm not so sure that's such a great idea. Sure, it makes it a bit less of a mess, but what do you do when you're trying to pipe to/from a 3rd party program that doesn't support this object model?
Serialize the object to text. It's easy to go from an object to text, but not the other way.
There is a reason we have the notion of structures in programming languages and don't store everything in strings.
RE[3]: In concept it is better than UNIX shells
by rajj on Thu 25th Jan 2007 03:56
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RE[2]: In concept it is better than UNIX shells
by acamfield on Thu 25th Jan 2007 15:05
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And what happens when windoze in their infinite wisdom changes an object class but doesn't teach the other cmdlets how to deal with the new properties. Piping works because it's simple and every Unix/Linux CLI program understands it. This is a typical MS answer for a problem that doesn't exit.
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2006-01-16
Passing objects around just makes more sense.
I'm not so sure that's such a great idea. Sure, it makes it a bit less of a mess, but what do you do when you're trying to pipe to/from a 3rd party program that doesn't support this object model?