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To: dayglored
Microsoft has open-sourced the development of the PowerShell ScriptAnalyzer

Oooooh...shiny. Can we just use Lisp or Scheme instead? I script in PowerShell daily and frankly I'm sick of bizarre irregular syntax and constantly having to coerce strange objects with strange side effects and behaviors into doing my bidding. Probably only 25% of Powershell makes sense, the rest is just vapid "Feeeechurrs" added for the weak-minded. It's like the worst of Perl and Python mixed together. I'm constantly discovering Windows Devops and Sysadmins sneaking in Node servers (OMG you can get it from NuGet) just so they can have some luck GSD in provisioning.

Whew. I didn't realize I had a rant waiting for this...at least I'm not pining for CMS and EXEC and REXX any more...

6 posted on 05/06/2015 8:53:08 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote>)
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To: no-s
I script in PowerShell daily and frankly I'm sick of bizarre irregular syntax and constantly having to coerce strange objects with strange side effects and behaviors into doing my bidding.

If you hate it so much, why are you using it daily? I don't think there's anything you can do in a half-dozen line of PS code that couldn't be done just as well with a few hundred lines of VB.

7 posted on 05/06/2015 8:59:13 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: no-s
at least I'm not pining for CMS and EXEC and REXX any more...

Back when OS/2 was big, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. I actually had an entire communications program written in nothing but REXX.

 

9 posted on 05/06/2015 12:40:18 PM PDT by zeugma (Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
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