Allow me to say scripting language then. Java, in my mind, is an abomination.
I think they could've extended Perl. And that would've been fine. But I don't think any of the other options have the breadth of PS. Or it's glide path. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange Management Shell killed the CDO star On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was no other language that was designed to deal with objects. >cough< >splutter< C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, just to name a few. PowerShell was a solution in search of a problem to solve. Microsoft made sure to manufacture problems for it to solve in their newer releases. :-p Don't get me wrong, it's not that PowSh is technically flawed -- it's very capable by all accounts -- it's just that PowSh is one more damn thing to learn and worry about, when there were countless other options out there Microsoft could have gone with. -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
