Excerpts from Chris Patti's message of Mon Mar 01 14:44:11 -0500 2010: > [This discussion is really rather off topic. We should go find a Powershell > forum if we want to continue discussing this :) ] > > Hi Ben; > > With respect, you're missing the point.
Entirely possible; the question was definitely a result of ignorance. > > Powershell enables a kind of scripting that is only recently beginning to > emerge in the UNIX world. The Kross scripting environment from the KDE > project - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kross_%28KDE%29 and Applescript from > Apple are more suitable analogues. Ahhh, alright. Fair enough. > > Whereas in the UNIX model you invoke applications and use stdio to pipe > their input and output to files, the screen, or each other, in the > Powershell model, you send commands or queries to running applications, or > the Windows operating system itself. > > So, they really are apples and oranges. You might prefer the UNIX model - > in some ways I do, but that doesn't make Powershell an inferior design. > Certainly. They are definitely not comparable given the above. All of the examples I saw were pretty straightforward system administration tasks and I assumed that there wasn't anything more to it. It still seems pretty ugly that you are tied to a special language just for this kind of scripting, but that's neither here nor there. Thanks for enlightening me. Cheers, - Ben _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
